Quotes About Learning

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.

a?a cum grânele noi ies din p?mânturile vechi, la fel ?i "toat? aceast? nou? ?tiin??" pe care oamenii o înva?? apare tot din b?trânele hâr?oage. Geoffrey Chaucer,1380, "Parlament al p?s?rilor

Doar pentru c? nu ?tim cum func?ioneaz? un anumit lucru, asta nu înseamn? c? nu func?ioneaz?.

No one individual had one one-thousandth of the knowledge necessary to fully understand it all.

To achieve complete understanding necessitates understanding increasingly more and more, and the combination of everything you need to understand to achieve complete understanding quickly becomes more than you can bear without, well, exploding.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

I once got a fortune cookie at the China Star Café in Muncie, Indiana that said, "Surround yourself with people who are what you are not." That cookie was more useful than all five months of Philosophy 101 I sat through.

The world is not perfect and neither am I; I live with a margin of error.

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.

Con todas sus imperfecciones, la ciencia moderna es una técnica que se amolda lo suficiente a la naturaleza como para funcionar: una práctica que nos permite aprender cosas fiables acerca del mundo. En este sentido, se trata de una técnica que esperaba a que la gente la descubriera.

I chose "Discovery" instead of "Invention" to suggest that science is the way it is not so much because of various adventitious historic acts of invention, but because of the way nature is. With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. In this sense, it is a technique that was waiting for people to discover it.

I was in Little League. I was on first base: I stole third. I ran straight across the diamond. Earlier in the week, I learned the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I argued with the ump that second base was out of my way.

When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody's perfect so I stopped practicing.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

People demanded of those who were suffering their way through the German autumn that they should learn from their misfortune. No one thought that hunger is a very bad teacher

People demanded of those who were suffering their way through the German autumn that they should learn from their misfortune. No one thought that hi her is a very bad teacher