learning Quotes

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.