Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

My weapon is literature

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.