Quotes About Learning

El problema de no advertir la cultura propia es uno de los grandes placeres de viajar al extranjero: descubrir lo que uno no ha visto en el propio país y advertir lo que los demás no conocen acerca de ellos mismos.

ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

The universe is knowable...

To other scientists, the scientist who corrects a colleague's error, or cites good reasons for seriously doubting his or her conclusions, performs a noble deed, like a Zen master who boxes the ears of a novice straying from the meditative path, although scientists correct one another more as equals than as master and student.

As a scientist, you must embrace the inconstancy of knowledge.

Objective truths of science are not founded in belief systems. They are not established by the authority of leaders or the power of persuasion. Nor are they learned from repetition or gleaned from magical thinking. To deny objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically principled. After all that, you'd think only one definition for truth should exist in this world, but no.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe. What

School is not only a place to learn, but a place to learn how to learn.

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

There's no greater education than one that's self-driven

I'm told that when you're testing rockets and they fail on the launchpad, euphemisms like It was an experiment high in learning opportunities are deployed in your press conferences. But really it's just rockets suffering from projectile dysfunction. That's what it should be called: projectile dysfunction.

As the saying goes, we spend the first years of children's lives teaching them to talk and walk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

Don't start an argument with someone thinking they have the same level of knowledge as you on a particular topic.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

L'ignorance est l'état naturel de l'esprit pour un chercheur scientifique. Montrez-moi quelqu'un qui croit n'être en rien ignorant, et je vous montrerai quelqu'un qui n'a jamais cherché, ni affronté la frontière entre ce qui est connu et ce qui est encore inconnu dans l'univers.

Although they could have also used the occasion as a teaching moment—a mind-blowing lesson on comparative risk. But that works only if people are open to learning. In modern times, many of us don't satisfy that criterion, perhaps because, according to the nineteenth-century British essayist Walter Bagehot,18

Las personas que creen que lo saben todo nunca han buscado ni se han encontrado con los lindes entre lo conocido y lo desconocido en el cosmos. Y

Nora had worked as a telegraphist at the Taunton Post Office and learned Morse code from her mother-in-law, accumulating valuable experience on the two common telegraphic instruments: the single needle and the

In the field, one quickly learns that everything that was funny at age ten is funny all over again.

I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So

Dog Training by Lew Burke

Arthur Joseph (for voice lessons, infinite wisdom, and an eye-opening Esalen retreat)

There were guys who were uptight and set in their ways, like Cliff, who couldn't even handle having a nickname like everybody else. They tended to gather as much knowledge as they could but had trouble making even the smallest behavioral change.