If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Industrialize or perish.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.