Quotes About Education

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

I'll teach you differences.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

I believe knowledge ought to be gained without a dollar amount added to it.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.