Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Investigate, educate and organize.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Industrialize or perish.