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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery… — E. O. Wilson
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must… — Benjamin Franklin
Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating… — Samuel Johnson
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than… — Samuel Johnson
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. — Laurence Sterne
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may… — William Blackstone
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as… — Thomas W. Moore
As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he… — Roger Bacon
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for… — Bertrand Russell
The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity. — William Stanley Jevons
Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be… — Richard Dawkins
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. — Anthony Trollope

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