I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
When you know better you do better.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The knowledge of all things is possible
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.