“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience.”

Well, I disagree with that the only source of knowledge is experience. My view is that you can create
knowledge from things that you already know, even before you start having experience of anything.
I will give you an example. You don’t need experiance to find out whether the following is true or not:
“A statement can be either true or false”. You already know, without experience, that the previous statement is true.

The implications of the above statement are profound: You can create without any experience, just with thinking the whole theory of mathematical logic.
This is an example of knowledge created by without the need of experience.

So in my view the quote would be more accurate if it was:

“A source of knowledge is experience.”

To be honest with you, what Einstein present in this quote is his deep believe in a phylosophical theory called Empiricism. The source of his belief is that he was working with Physical Sciences (in physical science almost all knowledge was based on experience at his days).
Today, however, epmiricism isn’t that blindly accepted as it was at early 90’s. That is, because of the developement of non Eucledian geometries. It kind of fail there…

There is a great book, fairly easy to read, about those phylosophical trends by Stewart Shapiro.

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Thanx,

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