Quotes About Education

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I was a Political Science major.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Our true mentor in life is science.

We need to make science cool again.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.