Quotes About Education

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Combine science and humanities.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).