Education Quotes

"Language shapes thought more profoundly than thought shapes language."

"The boundaries between disciplines are drawn by fear, not by nature."

"We mistake habituation for understanding and call it science."

"Knowledge without doubt is not knowledge; it is dogma."

"The greatest barriers to knowledge are not unknown, but assumed known."

"The greatest gift education can offer is the ability to think against oneself."

"Progress is made by people who question everything, including themselves."

"One must be careful not to confuse the map with the territory."

"Mastery comes not from knowing all answers, but from asking better questions."

"Education should teach students how to think differently, not just think harder."

"The puzzle becomes visible only to those trained within the paradigm."

"To change how science is practiced, one must change how scientists are trained."

"The young scientist must learn the old paradigm thoroughly before transcending it."

"The most important thing is not to stop questioning."

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

"I find that it is of paramount importance that I forget, at least from time to time, that my job is not to know, but to find out."

"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."

"I love questions. I like to ask questions. I don't like to answer them."

"The value of science is in the training of the mind to think something like nature thinks."

"I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way."

"Work hard, play hard, and never stop learning."

"Education should teach one to think, not what to think."

"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."

"Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the transformation of being."

"The mind can only understand what it is ready to understand."

"The deepest learning happens when we let go of the need to learn."

"Learning is the process of discovering what you already know."

"We must learn to think in fundamentally new ways about space and causality."

"To understand quantum mechanics, we must first unlearn classical intuitions."

"We must be willing to revise our fundamental concepts in light of experimental evidence."