Lewin Quotes

#1. As summarized professionally by Lewin in Science69 (and popularly by Adler and Carey in Newsweek70),

Gary E. Parker

#2. There is nothing as practical as good theory. - KURT LEWIN

Katherine S. Van Wormer

#3. The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.

Marco Beltrami

#4. I will make you love physics and your life will never be the same.

Walter Lewin

#5. Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Kurt Lewin

#6. Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Kurt Lewin

#7. I'm what is known as a 40-year overnight success.

Ben Lewin

#8. Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Kurt Lewin

#9. Teacher who make Physics boring are criminals

Walter Lewin

#10. Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Roger Lewin

#11. I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.

Ben Lewin

#12. A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Kurt Lewin

#13. There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

Kurt Lewin

#14. Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

#15. By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

Ben Lewin

#16. When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.

Ben Lewin

#17. Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Roger Lewin

#18. No research without action, no action without research.

Kurt Lewin

#19. The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution. At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

Roger Lewin

#20. Physics Works, and I'm still alive!

Walter Lewin

#21. When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

Kurt Lewin

#22. Given so much, What have I done to Deserve it? Nothing, Absolutely nothing. No wonder my heart Dances.

Ann Lewin-Benham

#23. Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

Kurt Lewin

#24. Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

Roger Lewin

#25. Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

Ann Lewin-Benham

#26. Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

Ben Lewin

#27. All of you have now lost your virginity ... in Physics!

Walter Lewin

#28. If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

Ben Lewin

#29. If you know only the name, you know nothing.

Walter Lewin

#30. You can't figure out what to do in the future by looking at how you did things in the past

Roger Lewin

#31. teachers choose materials, they consider materials' individuality; unusual

Ann Lewin-Benham

#32. All anyone needs in life is a goal and the will to reach it!

Rod Lewin

#33. I have always enjoyed the company of women.

Ben Lewin

#34. to the depths of your awareness and to the unknown. The first steps are willingness and courage. Five minutes per day is enough to get started. Even a one-minute conscious pause will make a difference. Beginning with the simplest form of meditation can establish discipline, which focuses the mind

Myra Lewin

#35. Experience alone does not create knowledge

Kurt Lewin

#36. If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

Ben Lewin

#37. I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.

Ben Lewin

#38. If you want to learn about an organization, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

#39. If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Kurt Lewin

#40. The patience and ability to work through a long series of steps - to figure things out - is a foundation for the child's creative life later on.

Ann Lewin-Benham