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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

I cannot live without books.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.