There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Dare to think for yourself.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

What is now proved was once only imagined.