Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
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.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
When you know better you do better.