Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.