For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
I cannot live without books.
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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
