Good Quotes

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

~ Paul Davies

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

~ Konrad Lorenz

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

~ Ellen Ochoa

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

~ Richard Jefferies

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.

~ Dave Ramsey

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science.

~ Michael Leunig

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.

~ Mike Johanns

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

~ Dan Brown

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

~ Aristotle

I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.

~ Abraham Verghese

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

~ Gerhard Herzberg

The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

~ Mario J. Molina

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

~ William Blake

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

~ Madeleine M. Kunin

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown.

~ Eva Vertes

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

~ Francis Collins

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.

~ James D. Watson

It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.

~ Mary Berry

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

~ James Dyson

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

~ Aaron Patzer

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

~ John Charles Polanyi

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

~ Yuan T. Lee

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

~ Charles Kuralt

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

~ Justin Trudeau

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

~ Maggie Gallagher

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

~ John Henrik Clarke

A good teacher is a determined person.

~ Gilbert Highet

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

~ Adora Svitak

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

~ Éliphas Lévi

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

~ Erin Gruwell

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

~ Temple Grandin

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

~ Philip Wylie

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

~ Eva Amurri

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

~ Carrie Underwood

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

~ Minna Antrim

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

~ Confucius

I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting.

~ Judy Greer

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

~ Godfrey Reggio