Quotes About Physics Education

#1. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

Husam Wafaei

#2. I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

Robert Coleman Richardson

#3. Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

Muriel Spark

#4. Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

Phil Cousineau

#5. Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Maurice Allais

#6. When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.

David Christian

#8. The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.

Stephen Senn

#9. It's not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them

Joseph Fink

#10. We study biology, physics, movements of glaciers ... Where are the classes on envy, feeling wronged, despair, bitterness ...

Alain De Botton

#11. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Isaac Newton

#12. Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

#13. If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want to encourage them to find out what the truth is, which is probably that you're wrong.

Noam Chomsky

#14. I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.

Mike Vallely

#15. Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

Nancy Roman

#16. This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

Frederick Douglass

#17. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience.

Ji-li Jiang

#18. That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Anthony Lane

#19. Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs.

Ace Antonio Hall

#20. Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.

Homer

#21. College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

Bill Gaede

#22. Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.

Armand Deutsch