Quotes About Education

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Science is the only true guide in life.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

I don't believe in mathematics.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Science is the topography of ignorance.