It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
A thought is an idea in transit.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.