Quotes About Learning

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

I'm happy to keep doing science and being a mentor to anyone who asks for advice.

Welcome to science. You're gonna like it here.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.