Paul Berg Quotes

You always need to be curious and study.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.

You always want to learn, you know.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I am writing to make sure that kids don't lose very important traits like curiosity that can drive social change because oftentimes I think parents emphasise more on doing well in school, which is important, but perhaps that sometimes comes at the cost of a child's natural curiosity.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.