Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Facts are stubborn things.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

Religion is just mind control.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Information is not knowledge.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

I know that the arts are important. I’m not denying that, but I can’t associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

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

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Libraries raised me.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us – aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

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

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.