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 didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

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.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

In terms of my involvement in ‚don’t ask, don’t tell‘ and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools – these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

Science is magic that works.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

I’m not really book-smart.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

I’m never going to go to Mars, but I’ve helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

And yet it moves.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

There is no education like adversity.