Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

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

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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