A child miseducated is a child lost.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

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.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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