I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.