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.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Industrialize or perish.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.