Quotes About Learning

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.