Last Updated on October 4, 2022 by Editorial Team
There are a thousand ways to start an article, but only a handful works when it comes to making an impression. The funny thing about quotes is, these words hardly make any literal sense. Writers are notorious for projecting an indefinite meaning advocating through their vocables. There is a constant cast shadow play of satire in quotes leveraging the competence to pass the message, sharp, bold and crisp.
There are some possible explanations for one to search for quotes regarding a scripture of education. STEM is the call of the hour, and its decisive slant towards the subject of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics delegates reasoning and logic in academia. But without stirring a well-informed and passionately written note on the table about this education proforma, the battle is yet to be won. So how about using some of these STEM education quotes we mentioned to give iconic stardust to your written piece.
We have been nit-picking to find the most appropriate STEM education quotes that would provide depth to your story, and we made a list of 45+ quotes served hot and fresh.
- “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” ~Charles Darwin
- “Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.” ~Bertrand Russell
- “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.” ~Steve Jobs
- “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.” ~Stephen Hawking
- “Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience… they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing… the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity” ~Mae Jemison, Engineer, Physician & NASA Astronaut
- “Science is not a boy’s game, it’s not a girl’s game. It’s everyone’s game. It’s about where we are and where we’re going. Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain’t stopped yet. There’s more exploration to come.” ~ Nichelle Nichols, NASA Ambassador & Star Trek actress
- “There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” ~George Washington
- “The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” ~Seymour Papert
- “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~Marie Curie
- “In mathematics, you don’t understand things, you just get used to them.” ~John von Neumann
- “The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter—for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.” ~Nikola Tesla
- “In the 21st century, scientific and technological innovations have become increasingly important as we face the benefits and challenges of both globalization and a knowledge-based economy. “To succeed in this new information-based and highly technological society, students need to develop their capabilities in STEM to levels much beyond what was considered acceptable in the past.” – National Science Foundation
- “Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.” – N.R. Narayana Murthy, IT Industrialist
- “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.” ~Freeman Dyson
- “My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, ‘So? Did you learn anything today?’ But not my mother. ‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’ That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.” ~Isidor Isaac Rabi
- “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.” – Shakuntala Devi, Writer & Mental Calculator
- “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” – Rosalind Franklin, Chemist and X-ray Crystallographer
- “…biologically driven neurological processes and natural curiosity of how the world works make early childhood an optimal time to introduce children to scientific inquiry.” – Jennifer Buchter, UNLV Developmental Specialist
- “We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people.” ~Xavier Dolan
- “We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be “Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” ~Henri Poincaré
- “For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.” ~Roger Bacon
- “A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.” ~Freeman Dyson
- “My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, ‘So? Did you learn anything today?’ But not my mother. ‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’ That difference – asking good questions – made me become a scientist.” ~Isidor Isaac Rabi
- “The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” ~Hypatia
- “Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.” ~Lise Meitner
- “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” ~Werner Heisenberg
- “For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new…” ~Sir Alexander Fleming
- “Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.” ~Vera Rubin
- “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” ~Edwin Powell Hubble
- “Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” ~Wernher von Braun
- “Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren’t the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? … Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply.” ~Gustave Eiffel
- “Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.” ~Carl Sagan
- “In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.” ~James Clerk Maxwell
- “Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” ~Plato
- “As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called ‘universal mathematics’.” ~René Descartes
- “In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.” ~Cornelius Bernardus Van Niel
- “Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” ~Sir Isaac Newton
- “Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don’t let others discourage you or tell you that you can’t do it. In my day I was told women didn’t go into chemistry. I saw no reason why we couldn’t.” ~Gertrude B. Elion
- “I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.” ~Carl Friedrich Gauss
- “The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.” ~Charles Babbage
- “The task is … not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”~Erwin Schrödinger
- “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” ~John Maynard Keynes
- “I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I would be thinking about it all day, and I would be thinking about it when I went to sleep. Without distraction I would have the same thing going round and round in my mind.” (Recalling the degree of focus and determination that eventually yielded the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.) ~Andrew Wiles
- “At ubi materia, ibi Geometria. Where there is matter, there is geometry.” ~Johannes Kepler
- “Count what is countable, measure what is measurable, and what is not measurable, make measurable.” ~Galileo Galilei
Summing up
With the leverage entitled to us in recent days, we summoned the need for STEM education. Ergo we believe and hope to be a part of your vocals through the quotes we summarised above.
An engineer, Maths expert, Online Tutor and animal rights activist. In more than 5+ years of my online teaching experience, I closely worked with many students struggling with dyscalculia and dyslexia. With the years passing, I learned that not much effort being put into the awareness of this learning disorder. Students with dyscalculia often misunderstood for having just a simple math fear. This is still an underresearched and understudied subject. I am also the founder of Smartynote -‘The notepad app for dyslexia’,