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

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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.

My weapon is literature

Better know nothing than half-know many things.