Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

I delight sometimes in saying to - as when I'm a teacher, I love saying, 'This is really important, so don't write it down.' To me, what you retain is a very important filter.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Read in order to live.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Information is not knowledge.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.