Saturday, 7 April 2012

Collection of Famous Einstein Quotes

  • “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
  • “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
  • “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
  • “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.”
  • “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
  • “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
  • “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
  • “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
  • “I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”
  • “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
  • “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
  • “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
  • “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
  • “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
  • “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
  • “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
  • “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
  • “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
  • “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
  • “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
  • “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
  • “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
  • “God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
  • “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
  • “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
  • “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
  • “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
  • “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
  • “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
  • “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
  • “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
  • “Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
  • “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
  • “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
  • “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
  • “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
  • “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
  • “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
  • “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
  • “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
  • “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”
  • “No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
  • “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
  • “Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
  • “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
  • “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
  • “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
  • “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
  • “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
  • “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
  • “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
  • “One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
  • “…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
  • “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
  • “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
  • “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)
Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Puzzle #4 of 10

Use what you know about how numbers can be shown on a hundred chart to help you fill in the blanks on the chart below.

 
hundreds square (4 of 10) with some missing values

Friday, 30 March 2012

Uruslah Masa Dengan Bijak

Pepatah Arab mengatakan : "Masa itu ibarat pedang.Jika kamu tidak memotong,kamu akan dipotong."
Nikmat sebenar dalam kehidupan dapat dirasai sekiranya kita bersungguh-sungguhdalam mengurus masa dengan tepat.
1.Membuat jadual waktu yang baik.
Rancang aktiviti setiap hari dengan menentukan tujuan dan tempoh pelaksanaan.

2.Membuat skala prioriti.
Tentukan dan susun aktiviti mana yang mesti didahulukan atau paling penting. Lebih muda jika kita menggunakan buku catatan kecil untuk mencatat aktiviti apa yang sudah, belum dan akan dikerjakan.

3.Mengenali kemampuan diri sendiri.
Usah membebani diri dengan melakukan sesuatu diluar kemampuan diri. Libatkan rakan atau orang dewasa untuk mendapatkan nasihat atau pertolongan. Usah pula membebani diri dengan terlalu banyak aktiviti dalam masa singkat.

4.Berdisiplin.
Jangan menangguhkan aktiviti penting atau melengah-lengahkan masa dalam mengerjakan satu-satu aktiviti. Berusahalah untuk mengikut jadual yang telah ditetapkan.

Sumber Rujukan:
Anak-anakku,bangunlah (Ummu Anas)
Penerbit: Tinta Image (Selangor Darul Ehsan)

Mari Hindari Kesilapan dalam Mendidik Anak

1.Kurang berdoa
Sesungguhnya anak adalah anugerah,amanah dan ujian dari Allah SWT. Kerana itu banyakkan berdoa untuk anak-anak kita bermula dari semasa mengandung hingga mereka dewasa. Antara doa-doa yang digalakkan untuk diamalkan semasa mengandung ialah:
-Penghulu /Sayyidul Istighfar
-Doa memohon rahmat QS.Ali Imran: 8-9
-Doa memohon zuriat yang baik QS.Ali Imran: 38
-Doa agar anak mengerjakan sholat QS.Ibrahim: 40-41

Adapun doa-doa yang digalakkan untuk diamalkan semasa mereka membesar ialah:
-Doa agar anak patuh kepada Allah QS.Al Baqarah: 128
-Doa diberi zuriat yang menyejukkan hati QS.Al Furqan: 74

2.Kerap menakut-nakutkan anak melebihi belaian motivasi seperti menakut-nakutkan mereka dengan tempat yang gelap, hutan rimba atau bukit bakau dan menggunakan kekerasan/paksaan semasa menyuruh anak tidur,belajar,sholat dan lain-lain aktiviti.

3.Tidak tegas dan terlalu banyak menegur
Anak-anak hendaklah dibiasakan untuk berdisiplin dalam segala hal. Tetapi tegurlah mereka dengan cara yang berhemah yaitu: dengan tidak mengeluarkan kata-kata kesat dan tidak pula membandingkan sesama anak-anak ataupun membandingkan anak orang lain.

4.Memberi didikan yang tidak seimbang
Ada ibu bapa yang lebih memfokuskan pada pendidikan minda daripada pendidikan rohani. Adapula yang lebih mementingkan pendidikan minda daripada pendidikan fizikal semisal aktiviti sukan dan riadah. Adapula yang lebih cenderung pada pendidikan rohani sehingga mengabaikan pendidikan emosi/kemampuan berinteraksi dengan masyarakat sekitar.

5.Kurang mengawasi gerak-geri dan aktiviti anak serta kurang memberi belaian kasih sayang
Seringkali kesibukan kerja membuat ibu bapa lupa untuk berinteraksi dengan anak-anak. Pergi pagi,pulang malam. Ketika meninggalkan rumah, mungkin anak-anak masih lelap dalam tidurnya. Ketika sampai di rumah pula, mungkin anak-anak sudah pun masuk tidur.

Sumber Rujukan:
45 Tugas dan Tanggung Jawab Isteri  (Harun Arrasyid Haji Tuskan)
Penerbit : Edusystem sdn.bhd (Selangor.Darul Ehsan)

Monday, 26 March 2012

Cara Meningkatkan IQ Anak-anak Kita

1. Pemakanan yang sihat
Perhatikan tabiat makan anak-anak kita. Biasakanlah pemakanan yang sihat sejak mereka kecil lagi. Makan mengikut masa yang ditetapkan dengan nutrisi yang seimbang dan hindari pemakanan  yang banyak mengandungi MSG. Tanpa disedari ibu bapa, anak-anak mungkin kerap memakan makanan ringan (snack) yang bukan sahaja diragui kehalalannya tapi juga tidak/kurang berkhasiat. Tanamkan dalam minda mereka bahwa makanan sedemikian sepatutnya dihindari kerana akan memberi kesan negatif pada kesihatan mereka.

2. Tidur dan istrirehat yang cukup
Pastikan anak-anak kita mendapat tidur malam yang berkualiti. Biasakan mereka tidur dan bangun mengikut jam yang ditetapkan sehingga dapat beraktiviti dengan lebih bersemangat setiap hari. Pastikan juga mereka mendapat rehat yang mencukupi. Jangan paksa anak-anak kita untuk membuat aktiviti fizikal semisal sukan jika kita nampak mereka "tak larat' kerana terlalu letih atau mengantuk.

3. Cabar minda mereka
Pastikan minda anak-anak kita selalu diisi dengan bacaan yang bermanfaat. Tak salah jika membelikan mereka majalah atau komik yang bukan sahaja menghiburkan tapi juga merangsang minda mereka untuk berfikir dengan aktiviti di dalamnya seperti sudoku, puzzle atau kuiz. Tak salah juga jika mereka menghabiskan hujung minggu dengan permainan komputer. Tapi ingat, pastikan games yang mereka pilih bersesuaian dengan usia mereka dan tidak mengandungi unsur negatif,jenayah atau lucah.Jangan jadikan cuti sekolah sebagai alasan utk berhenti memperkaya minda mereka

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Puzzle #3 of 10

Use what you know about how numbers can be shown on a hundred chart to help you fill in the blanks on the chart below.

 
hundreds square (3 of 10) with some missing values