Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

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

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

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

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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