Randall Munroe Quotes

You're unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

The question is just as important as the answer.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.

The more people that learn sign language, the better. This is part of my life, but it's not part of everybody's life, so it's nice to expose this to the world.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine. It's so important for their sense of self discovery. And it helps them learn problem-solving.