Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The knowledge of all things is possible

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

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

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

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.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Industrialize or perish.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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