THE ANSWERS ARE CHANGING

 

After giving an advanced test to a graduate class of physics students at Princeton University, Albert Einstein was on the way back to his office when one of his graduate assistants asked the famous professor,

“Dr. Einstein, wasn’t that the same exam that you gave to this physics class last year?”

Dr. Einstein nodded and said, “Yes, it was the same exam as last year.”

The graduate assistant summoned up his courage to ask the great Nobel prizewinning physicist, “But, Dr. Einstein, how could you give the same test two years in a row?”

“Because,” Einstein replied, “in the last year, the answers have changed.”

In the same way, your answers are changing today at a more rapid rate than ever before. The answers in your field are changing as you sit there. What was true a year ago may not be true today, and what is true today may not be true a year from now. The only way that you can be assured of staying on top of your field is by continually taking in new ideas and knowledge to compare it with what you know today.

By
John Wiley