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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

My weapon is literature

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.