Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

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

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.