Jonathan Haidt Quotes

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.

You can learn practically anything you want in the world online.

The core of what Google is about is bringing information to people.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

despite its apparent impracticality, the Administration values discovery-oriented science, and aims to continue to support the grand quest for knowledge about the universe at the largest and smallest scales.

There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I'm preparing for a role of some kind, and then I'll focus on a certain subject.

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.

I feel like I'm sort of afraid to study too much because I feel like I work as I go, but I want to study the classics and also the technical aspects of things. I'm always looking to understand more.

Any child can tell you what Google does - Google gives you the answers. But Google doesn't, not really.

I don't do much research on the Internet.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

Scientists need the infrastructure for scientific search to aid their research, and they need it to offer relevancy and ways to separate the wheat from the chaff - the useful from the noise - via AI-enabled algorithms. With AI, such an infrastructure would be able to identify the exact study a scientist needs from the tens of thousands on a topic.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.