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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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