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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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.

Industrialize or perish.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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.

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

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.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

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

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.