Quotes About Engagement

Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

We need to make science cool again.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.

Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

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

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

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

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

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

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.

A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.