The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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.
Industrialize or perish.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
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.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
