For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The highest result of education is tolerance.
My weapon is literature
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.