Education Quote by James D. Watson Download Open image “Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).” — James D. Watson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Facts Ideas Important Knowing
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. — Charles Lederer Copy Share Image
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true. — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them. — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy - they encouraged constant… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail! — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
