The knowledge of all things is possible

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.