My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.