“People should be encouraged, as an individual, to go and find out for themselves. Wherever you are, wherever you can, you should research things on your own, you should research things that you’ve been told or thought. And once you’re in that line set, and you really become an active learner as an individual, then all the things open up to you.”

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” Richard Feynman

“A lot of what we’ve learned about science tells us that our "common sense” it’s just wrong. We evolved to avoid lions on the savanna, not to understand quantum mechanics, so the fact that our common sense is wrong is not such a bad thing, it’s called learning.

The fact that we have to change our minds shouldn’t be a threat, it’s a wonderful thing to force your beliefs to conform to the evidence of reality. 

It’s amazing to discover you are wrong, in fact, it’s liberating. That’s one of the great things about science. It opens your mind.“ Lawrence Krauss