Quotes About Learning

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

By far the best proof is experience.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

Science is the only true guide in life.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.