You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

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

Dare to think for yourself.

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

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.