Quote

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Things
Order
Bear
Hands
Bears
School
Honor
May
Generations
Faithfully
Many
Hand
Inheritance
Children
Wonderful
Add
Work
Family
Schools
Mind
Learn
Receive

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
Albert Einstein
Image
The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.
Albert Einstein
Image
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
Albert Einstein
Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.
Albert Einstein
Image
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
Image
... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
Albert Einstein
Image
I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.
Albert Einstein
Image
At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.
Albert Einstein
Image
To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
Albert Einstein
Image
The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
Image
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
Albert Einstein
Image
Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.
Albert Einstein
Image
My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.
Albert Einstein
Image
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
Albert Einstein
Image
When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.
Albert Einstein
Image
The economists will have to revise their theories of value.
Albert Einstein
Image
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
Image
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
Albert Einstein
Image
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
Albert Einstein