The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
