Quotes About Learning

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just "virtual reality".

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.