Quotes About Learning

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking

As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change

Not only is it important to ask questions and find the answers, as a scientist I felt obligated to communicate with the world what we were learning.

If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.

it is surely better to strive for a complete understanding than to despair of the human mind.

Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest.

I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe.

la mayoría de la gente cree que la ciencia real es demasiado difícil

We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let's face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So

If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher.

Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder. Often that spark comes from a teacher.

Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding

A inteligência é a capacidade de se adaptar à mudança.

I sometimes threw books without indexes to the floor.

Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Wonder and knowledge are both to be cherished.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's also a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.

What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.