Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Industrialize or perish.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.