I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Industrialize or perish.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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 delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.