Have people learned enough from Socrates, Leonardo, Goethe, Emerson, Einstein, and Crick?

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein

Love does not dominate; it cultivates. - Goethe

   If you love the truth, then must you cultivate the truth by asking questions? Is a profound question a gardener that destroys weeds in the garden of truth?

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci

    Does simplicity come from a great question?

The most important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Einstein

   What are the 3 greatest questions that you can ask yourself? Is imagination more important than knowledge? Are questions more important than answers? Are experiments more important than theories? What is the essence of both questioning and teaching?

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Einstein

   Is nature our greatest teacher? Is Socrates the best of all human teachers? Think about the life of Socrates. Do good teachers teach from the love of truth? Do bad teachers teach from the love of money? According to the physicist Lawrence Krauss, the worst mistake that teachers make is to assume that the students are interested in learning what the teachers teach. Does the good teacher love the truth and teach only those students who also love the truth? Does the bad teacher get paid by a bureaucracy to teach irrelevant facts to confused students?

Every wall is a door. - Emerson

   Is the way to understand quantum gravity merely to ask the great question that turns a wall into a door? Does quantum gravitational theory need to explain dark energy, dark matter, Guth's inflation, and ultra-high-energy cosmic rays? Is the way to understand consciousness merely to ask the greatest possible question about consciousness? If a mammal is a conscious robot, then what, why, and how did Darwinian evolution do with consciousness? What is the most fundamental question about REM sleep? What is the most fundamental question about belief in God?

   Is everything a mixture of myth, metaphor, and reality? Does God indeed exist as a metaphor? Is God either the trinity of truth, virtue, and justice or the trinity of money, greed, and hypocrisy? Is the truth a powerful and inevitable unity?