My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I cannot live without books.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
