John Pople Quotes

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

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

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

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

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Books always help.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.