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

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

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.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I cannot live without books.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.