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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Einstein makes two claims that pull in opposite directions. The first is that science, set against the world it tries to describe, remains crude and unfinished. The second is that it is nonetheless the best instrument people have. Neither statement cancels the other; the remark holds them together.
The comparison to a child is a claim about stage rather than quality. A child’s understanding is genuine as far as it goes, but a great deal lies beyond it. Einstein applies the same description to the whole of scientific knowledge, including his own contributions to it.
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Albert Einstein
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“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
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