Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
