Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Industrialize or perish.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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

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.