As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.