God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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.

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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