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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

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

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Dare to think for yourself.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.