If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
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.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
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
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
