No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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.

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

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