Sayings I am going to Sprinkle Throughout my Class

I’ve been trying to collect sayings or quotes to decorate my classroom with. I have plenty of inspirational quotes, but very few about science and curiosity. I still haven’t decided which one will go up front and be the theme of my classroom. hmm.

Class Environment

• This is a risk-taking, mistake making classroom.
• Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same thing. It means everyone getting what he/she needs.
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind. -William James
• The best way out of difficulty is through it. -Will Rogers.
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Suess
• Unless someone like you cares a whole lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. -Dr. Suess
• You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose. – Dr. Seuss
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.-Albert Einstein
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  -Albert Einstein

Science Related

• What I cannot create, I do not (actually) understand. - Richard Feynman
• Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. -Richard Feynman
• The wonderful thing about science is that it’s ALIVE. -Richard Feynman
• The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasoning for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he [she] contemplates the mysteries of eternity of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery everyday. Never lose a holy curiosity. -Albert Einstein
• Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why. - Bernard Baruch
• Facts are not science as the dictionary is not literature. -Martin Fischer
• The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg