Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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.
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.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.