Quotes About Learning

They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.

You don't need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.

Encyclopedias don't win wars.

All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into a million pieces. Individuals will know much of exceedingly tiny facets of what there is to know.

Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, How did you learn all this, Isaac? From you, Pappa, I said. From me? I don't know any of this. You didn't have to, Pappa, I said. You valued learning and you taught me to value it. Once I learned to value it, the rest came without trouble.

The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Consider the question suitably modified.

Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

Un nou-n?scut crede c? el reprezint? întregul univers, dar greÈ™eÈ™te - aÈ™a cum îÈ™i d? seama destul de repede. De aceea, el trebuie s? studieze lumea exterioar? lui - trebuie s? încerce s? înveÈ›e unde se afl? graniÈ›ele dintre persoana sa È™i restul lumii - pentru a putea înÈ›elege cine este È™i cum se cuvine s?-È™i duc? viaÈ›a.

During the century after Newton , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of trail and error. sometimes it works beautifully.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth

Surely the relationship between inconveniences suffered and privileges granted was part of the very essentials of learning how to handle people without an explosion.

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering of practically everything, and by means of a trick memory had managed to keep it all straight.