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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore 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.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.