No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

There is no education like adversity.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I don’t spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Science is nothing but perception.

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‚Molecular Biology of the Gene.‘

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Only the educated are free.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.