If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Investigate, educate and organize.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
