Claude Bernard Quotes

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

It's amazing what the Internet can teach you to do.

All my knowledge comes from research.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

The acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.

I found that I can never know enough, and that many times the best form of education is through communication.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.