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

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

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

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.