The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Industrialize or perish.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.