learning Quotes

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.