Quotes About Learning

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

History is a science, no more and no less.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Intelligence is not a science.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Our true mentor in life is science.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.