The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A thought is an idea in transit.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Industrialize or perish.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Know what you are talking about.

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.

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