Favorite quotes
"It is not the knowledge but the learning, not the possessing but the earning, not the being there but the getting there, which gives us the greatest pleasure."---Carl Friedrich Gauss
"All that I saw and learned that was new delighted me. It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty."---Madame Marie Curie
"How do I work? I grope."---Albert Einstein
"There's a time to soar like an eagle and a time to burrow like a worm. It takes a pretty sharp cookie to know when to shed the feathers and to begin munching the humus!"---Lars Onsager
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."---Albert Einstein
"I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there."---Richard Feynman
"I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."---Isaac Newton
"The greatest luck is the discovery of a new truth; to that, recognition can add little or nothing."---Franz Neumann
(Meditative Rose by Dali)
"It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration."---Mahatma Gandhi
"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are."---Niels Bohr.
"I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist, and Confucian."--- Mahatma Gandhi
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."---Henry David Thoreau
" What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly."---Lao Tzu
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants"---Isaac Newton
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"---Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness."---Louis Strong
SEVEN DANGERS TO HUMAN VIRTUE by Mahatma Gandhi
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Business without ethics
5. Science without humanity
6. Religion without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
(A piece of art work by Elie Koay when he was 4 years old)
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."---Albert Einstein
"People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages."--- Israel M. Gelfand
"When the technique is obscure [to you], Explanation is naturally difficult."---Acharya Dharmakirti