Best discovery & learning Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.”

“If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.”

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Author:Marcel Proust

“All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”

Source: Further fables for our time

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

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Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”

Source: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”

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Author:James Joyce

“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”

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Author:James Joyce

“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.”

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Author:Ellen Langer

“I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.”

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Author:George Washington Carver

“Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.”

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Book:The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

Source: The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays

“There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.”

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Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.”

“The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.”

“The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.”

“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all gardeners get by visiting other people's gardens. We all have a lot to learn and in every new garden there is a chance of finding inspiration - new flowers, different arrangement or fresh treatment for old subjects. Even if it is a garden you know by heart there are twelve months in the year and every month means a different garden, and the discovery of things unexpected all the rest of the year.”

“Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.”

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Author:George Berkeley

“Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love”

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