Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.