It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.