learning

• People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

  — Bjarne Stroustrup

• The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

  — Novalis

• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

  — Francis Bacon

• Under the world view possessed by medieval scholars, the path of learning was a path of self-deprecation.

  — Richard Weaver

• Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.

  — Aaron Swartz

• So the idea of being able to explain something in a succinct form is such a cool thing, and it requires you to know a field so well.

  — Bill Gates

• Learn from the past. Or repeat its horrors, in imagination, endlessly.

  — Jordan Peterson

• There’s a balance you have to have between being very critical of yourself and your work while also maintaining a strong faith in your own ability. Your unique voice and perspective matter and if you can find a way to bring that out then you will create something special.

  — Eric Barone

• You need to become unimportant as a subject, that is, if you are a philosopher, believe is not a verb. ...You have to submit to the things that are possibly true and... follow wherever your inquiry leads, but it's not about you, it has nothing to do with you.

  — Joscha Bach

• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  — J. G. Ballard

• Most young Physicians neglect this essential point of their art in their education & very often acquire it when they come to Practice at the expense of their patients' safety.

  — Joseph Black

• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  — Max Born

• Those who have taken upon them to lay down the law of nature as a thing already searched out and understood, whether they have spoken in simple assurance or professional affectation, have therein done philosophy and the sciences great injury.

  — Francis Bacon

• The brain has this wonderful property — you can go through and shoot out every tenth neuron and never miss them.

  — Carver Mead

• The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

  — Bertrand Russell

• Realistic thinking accrues only after mistake making, which is the cosmic wisdom's most cogent way of teaching each of us how to carry on.

  — Buckminster Fuller

• What one searches for in the algebraic art are the relations which lead from the known to the unknown

  — Omar Khayyám

• We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

  — Grace Hopper

• It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

  — James Clerk Maxwell

• If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.

  — Thomas Henry Huxley