Heidi Hammel Quotes

I just was raised always to question and be as informed as I can be.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't sit there reading 'New Scientist,' putting post-it notes next to ideas.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Sometimes I think that our laboratories are but little earthworks which men build about themselves, and whose puny tops too often conceal from view the Olympian heights; that we who work in these laboratories are but skilled artisans compared with the man who is able to observe and to draw accurate deductions from the world about him.

I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

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.

It is the mark of a truly educated person to be deeply moved by statistics.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Young people must sieze the fortress of science if they want to truly replace the old guard.