The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy 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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.