The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.