My weapon is literature
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
A thought is an idea in transit.