A thought is an idea in transit.

Investigate, educate and organize.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Know what you are talking about.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.