Quotes About Learning

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Hindsight is an exact science.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I was a Political Science major.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.