Learning Quotes

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

I spend a lot of time reading.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings... ...

I don't think I would have spent time learning about the immune system if understanding vaccines weren't something I considered very important.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.