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Quotes About Learning

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
~ Horace Mann
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
~ Horace Mann
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
~ Isaac Asimov
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
~ William James
I'll teach you differences.
~ William Shakespeare
When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].
~ Jaggi Vasudev
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
~ James Anthony Froude
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
~ Wellington Mara
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
~ Jamie Dimon
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
~ Jean Rostand
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.
~ Jeff Smith
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
~ Jim McKelvey
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.
~ John Dewey
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b
~ Francis Bacon
Nice passion is reading
~ Leo Tolstoy
And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
~ Galileo Galilei
Even if ninety-nine percent of what you discover is later proven wrong, it is the one percent that is right that matters.
~ Steven Magee
If only I knew now what I know in the future.
~ Shawn-Dutton Manchester
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
~ Seneca