Laurence Sterne Quotes

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

… to develop a plan to promote better science education

When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all.

Grammar is the analysis of language.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

I want to learn English.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

We're not too out there to educate people about any specific thing necessarily so much as we are to encourage critical and scientific thinking.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are quite limited and I'm not aware of being a hell of a lot more interested in that topic than I am in others.

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

We must plow through the whole of language.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.