Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.