My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Knowledge is power.

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

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

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.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

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’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

I give the children education.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

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

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.