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.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of the conflict. And when you have a conflict, then it’s an educational process to try to resolve the conflict. And to resolve that, you have to get people on both sides of the conflict involved so that they can dialogue.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

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

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

The majority of people who don’t have Internet, don’t have the Internet because they don’t know why they want to use the Internet.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

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

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

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

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

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

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.