Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

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

Know what you are talking about.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.