If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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.