Quotes About Education

Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.