Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

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

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

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

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

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.

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

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.