Any Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the language, problem-structure,…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a…

— Anthony Standen

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the…

— Stephen Hawking

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

The world itself is already a great textbook.

— Ma Yansong

“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of a first…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

— Franz Grillparzer

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such…

— Greg Graffin

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

— Stephen Hawking