Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

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.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

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

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

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.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

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.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

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

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.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.