A thought is an idea in transit.
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.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
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.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Industrialize or perish.
The knowledge of all things is possible
