Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When you know better you do better.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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

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

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

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