A child miseducated is a child lost.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

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