Carolyn Porco Quotes

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

The proper study of mankind is books.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

There is no better high than discovery.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

In acquiring knowledge there is no law that applies to the white boy that does not apply to the black boy. They all have to travel the same road to reach the same end….A man that desires to be wise must study, whether he be black or white.

A table is not blessed if it has fed no scholars.