If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I cannot live without books.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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 isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world