Alton Brown Quotes on Learning
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Obviously, I need to send Thing to baking school.
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I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
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Because I think the more you understand the world around you, I think the more power you can have in it. And the more you can do. And I think that's important.
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I'm a hacker at heart and I like finding different ways of doing things because in doing so, I find new ways of examining the job at hand.
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Life is always the best teacher, no matter what you're doing.
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I am a nerd, I guess, if you think that getting kind of excited about understanding ionic bonds is nerdy. Truth is, I was a horrible student. I sucked at everything because nothing mattered to me. History was a bunch of numbers, chemistry was a bunch of symbols, math was bunch of equations. And once in my adulthood, I started getting really interested in food. All of those things started to make sense, and now I'm into it. I can't learn enough about chemistry because now it applies to something. And I blame the educational system for that -- for making it meaningless. For making a lot of what we learn in the educational system meaningless.