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.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
