It Followed From The Special

An Important Advance In The Life Of A People Is The Transformation Of The Religion Of Fear Into The Moral Religion. But One Must Avoid The Prejudice That Regards The Religions Of Primitive Peoples As Pure Fear Religions And Those Of The Civilized Races As Pure Moral Religions. All Are Mixed Forms, Though The Moral Element Predominates In The Higher Levels Of Social Life. Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of The Idea Of God.

The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge.

The Most Valuable Thing A Teacher Can Impart To Children Is Not Knowledge And Understanding Per Se But A Longing For Knowledge And Understanding, And An Appreciation For Intellectual Values, Whether They Be Artistic, Scientific, Or Moral. It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge. Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Questions That Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know, Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Is To Discover What The Pupil Does Know Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

The Harmony Of Natural Law Reveals An Intelligence Of Such Superiority That, Compared With It, All The Systematic Thinking And Acting Of Human Beings Is An Utterly Insignificant Reflection.

What Lead Me More Or Less Directly To The Special Theory Of Relativity Was The Conviction That The Electromotive Force Acting On A Body In Motion In A Magnetic Field Was Nothing Else But An Electric Field.