“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Anatole France on Education
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.” Continue reading
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Continue reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” Continue reading
Benjamin Franklin on Education
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Continue reading
Marquis De Vauvenargues on Education
“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.” Continue reading
Michel De Montaigne on Education
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” Continue reading
Georges Clemenceau on Experience
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intellectuals
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Continue reading
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” Continue reading
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