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

Investigate, educate and organize.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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