Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

-Albert Einstein
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thoughts. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Learning is a continuous process

Yup...you heard it right!

There is so much in this world that we do not know and learning is a life long process. Be it ourselves or even our surroundings. One has to have the inquisitive nature about the intriguing enigma of life and mankind. By this I don't merely stress upon you shooting questions at any individual you meet but the ability to ponder about deep thoughts and engage in discussions with the like minded individuals.

There is so much in this world that it is impossible to learn everything. In fact, it's fascinating to learn about how we ourselves function. Giving it a slight thought, this provokes my thinking further about how we are wired to think in the first place. Man has made tremendous contributions to the world till date with some of his creations in the same lines as himself. Consider the new age robots which are being created in the laboratories with artificial intelligence instilled in their chips. Man is so much like these machines with bones and flesh instead of wires and processors. But there is still something much beyond that which makes mankind a class apart from the rest, machines or even other species, as of now. There's still a probability of existence of a superior species else where in the mystic universe which stretches beyond our imagination.

Thoughts such as these are mysteries by themselves. Indeed, learning is a continuous process.


These are some of the interesting quotes I came across ---



Know thyself.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
-Socrates
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
-Henry Ford
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
-William Blake
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
-Albert Einstein
You cannot open a book without learning something.
-Confucius
Learning never exhausts the mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-Bill Gates


Note: The above quotes are taken from this website : http://www.idealquote.com

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

I wonder why???

Why do we have 10 fingers in total? Why do things appear the way they appear? Why is it that the Sun rises in the east? Why has English become the global language?

Well..so many many questions pop up!!! Though humans claim to have understood the phenomenon of Big Bang and dark matter, there is so much that is left unanswered. Have you ever wondered what would have been the means of communication if not English. Sign language as ancients probably used? May be...but there are a lot of cons...one of them being - I couldn't have been blogging now. It would have been a totally different experience then. Weird to think of things as they are if you go into the depths in search of those simple things you come across in daily life.

The reason behind this is that we have accepted things the way they are. We are reluctant to change. We have been informed about certain things in childhood and kids aren't encouraged to be inquisitive. The main reason is that there are several questions in the minds of individuals and no one really knows why such and such a thing is in such and such a manner.

In this changing world, people hardly have the time to think of these minor issues. I have seen people who ask ' Does it really matter?'. Well...It depends on your view.

Science hasn't achieved its peak in certain small things we accept as a part of life. (Note : I'm not being harsh on any scientist here! I'm thoroughly grateful for all that humans have achieved. Right from the marvels of the expanding universe to the incredibly small quarks and anti quarks. I am not against science, in fact I'm an avid Science and Technology fan). But the harsh reality is that we are yet to discover so much more that is existent in this universe. There is so much that is still beyond the scope of human understanding. A revolution in scientific thinking in the near future will clarify these doubts plaguing the human mind.

Only Time Will Tell :)