Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

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

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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