John H Lienhard Inspirational Quotes (3)

To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.