“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.” SciencePowerfulEffectsSkillsInstinctAgentsInsectsBrutes Book:Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light Source: Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
“Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.” NeedsScienceSkillsDegreesLaborMachinesBeneficial Author:W. H. Auden
“Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.” GivingChildrenImportantProblemRememberScienceAnswersMistakeLearningSkillsImportanceSolve Author:Roger Lewin
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.” FactsUsePastScienceDifferencesAnimalHistoryPureSkillsAccountsMathematicsFormerLatterHistorianCowsSheepPrincipalBullshitBreedingSelectiveAnklesSelective Breeding Book:Another Roadside Attraction Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.” MayRealMatterProblemScienceImaginationEducationCreativityCreativePossibilitySkillsEssentialsSolutionsMarkRegardRaisesMereIntelligenceMathematicalClassroomProblem SolvingAngleReal ProblemsCreative ThinkingProblems And SolutionsSolution To A ProblemCreative ImaginationImagination And CreativityNew PossibilitiesImagination CreativitySolved ProblemsRelated To CreativityAdvances In ScienceCreative Problem SolvingCreative Solutions Author:Albert Einstein