Quotes About Learning

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

Experience alone can decide on truth.