Quotes About Learning

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Knowledge is the death of research.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

Only dead mathematics can be taught where the attitude of competition prevails: living mathematics must always be a communal possession.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.