For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.