Quotes About Learning

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.