There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

Only the educated are free.

I like school and I like learning.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a title, and that many go in for those professions who are utterly unfit for them, while others who would be very competent are prevented by business or their daily cares, which keep them away from letters.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

I teach children to be winners.

I’m not no Internet person.

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.