Quotes About Learning

Earth's atmosphere at different times in history." You can't predict the past, Dad. "You can if you don't know it yet.

But practice pares back the impossible

I let the class out, ten minutes early. My students would have to figure out the rest of the origin of life on their own.

The game's best AIs are smarter than last year's interplanetary probes. Play becomes the engine of human growth. But

Easy Tree IDs.

Teaching is like photosynthesis: making food from air and light. It tilts the prospects for life a little.

The Golden Guide to Pond Life, The Golden Guide to Stars, to Rocks and Minerals, to Reptiles and Amphibians: humans are almost beside the point.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the word "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.

It had been a long day, and the thing he wanted to know would take ten years of coursework to grasp. But a child's question was the start of all things.

AI monitored the neural activity and sent auditory and visual cues to steer the trainees toward the targets' prerecorded neural states. In this way, the trainees learned to approximate the patterns of excitation in the targets' brains, and, remarkably, began to report having similar emotions.

Old trees are our parents, and our parents' parents, perchance. If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity. . . .

Los viejos árboles son nuestros padres, acaso los padres de nuestros padres. Si aprendierais los secretos de la Naturaleza, derrocharíais más humanidad

For the bitch I was. For the attentive person I wasn't.

The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

The past always comes clearer, in the future.

informal system of mastery and apprenticeship over which was laid the more recent system of the European graduate school.

collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks.

Bohr had learned to be alert for bright students who were not afraid to argue.

Kapitza frequently opened discussions with deliberate howlers so that even the youngest would speak up to correct him, loosening the grip of tradition on their necks.

Von Neumann at six joked with his father in classical Greek and had a truly photographic memory: he could recite entire chapters of books he had read.392 Edward Teller, like Einstein before him, was exceptionally late in learning—or choosing—to talk.393 His grandfather warned his parents that he might be retarded, but when Teller finally spoke, at three, he spoke in complete sentences.

And most generally and profoundly: "The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.

The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it seems.

Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

Try to say that: "I don't know anything". We used to call it "tabula rasa" in Latin. Maybe you could think of yourself as an erased blackboard, ready to be written on. For by and large, what blocks spiritual teaching is the assumption that we already know, or that we don't need to know. We have to pray for the grace of beginner's mind. We need to say with the blind man, "I want to see".