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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Necessity is the mother of invention.