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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

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Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a Germany-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized scientific thought with new theories of space, time, mass, motion, and gravitation. A 1921 Nobel Prize winner and considered by many to be the greatest scientist of the twentieth century, Einstein also held a central belief in the need for humanity in science and in the application of reason and compassion to curb the dangerous excesses of human ambition.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLearning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThis is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.

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Imagination and Creativity