My weapon is literature

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

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

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

I am a part of everything that I have read.