Quotes About Learning

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn't work like that... There's a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.'

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

I had a few teachers when they would hear a noise they would immediately be like, 'Nadine, outside!' I spent about two years standing outside the physics classroom.

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.

I came from a very small high school in which there was no guidance and not any appreciable amount of physics taught, nor much mathematics. So I didn't know what academia was all about until I got to college.

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

No, I never sing in the bath. In fact, I've never even practised singing. I would only ever sing indoors if I had to learn a song with my pianist.

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting.

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

Fingers don't have much to do with playing the piano. The idea that they do must be unlearned.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

My good fortune was that I was born into a home where Mum and Dad encouraged me to learn the piano.

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.