There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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.
The knowledge of all things is possible
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Industrialize or perish.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
