Quotes About Learning

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Research is appreciation.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.