You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created”. What is meant by this Albert Einstein quote?
This quote was also phrased, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” I think that version does a little bit more in explaining the meaning. It means that we must develop our intelligence and level of thought if we are to find the answers to problems we create. He also said, “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” What he is saying is that we need to always strive to have a better understanding of things if we are to survive and prosper as a people.
Einstein is one of my heros. One of the reasons for that was that he looked at physics from the standpoint of a child. He realized that a solution to a problem cannot be reach as long as you continue to look at it from the same perspective as the guy that confused it in the first place. He often looked at a problem as one that was seeing the world for the first time. It could be said that the “level” in which the genious chose to solve problem was a lower one. Not assuming that you are going to solve it because you are “so damb smart, and educated”. I was going to post a simular quote here as Sketchy, but he beat me to it.
