Quotes About Learning

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

I am not a scientist.

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Science is always inquiring.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.