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

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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