Quotes About Learning

Mary Pope Osborne

Mary Pope Osborne

watch Marilena gingerly probing the woman's exposed tissue. What she is doing, basically, is getting her bearings: learning—in a detailed, hands-on manner—what's what and what's where in the complicated layering of skin, fat, muscle, and fascia that makes up the human cheek.

The question then becomes, was it necessary, once the likes of Vesalius had pretty much figured out the basics, for every student of anatomy to get right in there and figure them out all over again? Why couldn't models and preserved prosections be used to teach anatomy? Do gross anatomy labs reinvent the wheel? The questions were especially relevant in Knox's day, given the way in which bodies were procured, but they are still relevant today.

Most of them students from the nearby University of Dayton...

The human brain most resembles that of Jersey cows at about six months."*

But gross anatomy lab is not just about learning anatomy. It is about confronting death.

But students weren't going to pay tuition to learn arm and leg anatomy;

I'll never know the particulars of what you'll be doing with my cold hull, but I trust it will be educational. All that is good and noble in this world begins with education. Learn well and live well.

Until Oklahoma! they were, despite the money he made, always very hand-to-mouth, a situation my mother managed with great agility, a nose for bargains, and a flair for double-entry bookkeeping. I used to brag about that last one, having no idea what it meant.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock. - Frankenstein p115

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Que extraña cosa el conocimiento! Una vez que ha penetrado en la mente, se aferra a ella como la hiedra a la roca.

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

No puedo dejar de señalar aquí cuántas veces los maestros tienen la ocasión de dirigir los gustos de sus alumnos hacia conocimientos útiles y cuántas veces lo desaprovechan inconscientemente.

Yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquires.

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder. A

what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.

Si dice che Isaac Newton abbia confessato di sentirsi come un bambino che raccoglie conchiglie sulle rive dell'immenso e inesplorato oceano della verità.