professor doctor ishwar singh dagar and the german classes

"Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar"
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes things visible


"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."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
"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."
"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."

a tribute to professor doctor dagar through the words of the greatest scientist einstein