Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Dare to think for yourself.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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.

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Know what you are talking about.