Masatoshi Koshiba Quotes

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

I believe that the best way to help people understand the world is to provide them with opportunities to actively explore, experiment, and express themselves.

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

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

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

... things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

Science and fun cannot be separated.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.