Quotes About Learning

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

You need to develop a mantra: "There will always be another trade." Learn it, know it, live it.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.

Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring.] There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.

One of the great joys of science is to understand something for the first time–to really understand, which is very different from, and far more satisfying than, knowing the facts.

The trick as an educated citizen of the twenty-first century is to realise that Nature is far stranger and more wonderful than human imagination, and the only appropriate response to new discoveries is to enjoy one's inevitable discomfort, take delight in being shown to be wrong and learn something as a result.

questions by doing science. We will observe, measure and think. One of the great joys of science is to understand something for the first time–to really understand, which is very different from, and far more satisfying than, knowing the facts.

I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.

If there is one thing we try to teach our students when they first arrive at the University of Manchester, ready to learn to be physicists, it is that everyone gets confused and stuck. Very few people understand difficult concepts the first time they encounter them, and the way to a deeper understanding is to move forward with small steps. In the words of Douglas Adams: 'Don't panic!

That dizzying feeling of confusion, if (hopefully) followed by an epiphany of clarity, is the joy of science. If the reader is feeling the former, we hope to deliver the latter by the end of the book.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

Today's crisis, is tomorrow's wisdom.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

Honour thy error as a hidden intention.

Truth cannot be imparted," said Kline. "It must be inflicted.

Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?

With age does not come wisdom

she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience.

You will learn to be more grateful. It comes with experience

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.