The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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.

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.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.