Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Science and fun cannot be separated.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

Entertainment that is fact-based is, I think, where people really learn the most, because they're leaning in, their curiosity is stimulated and they're being entertained.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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

Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

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

I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.