If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.