We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

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.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

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.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

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.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

I love all kinds of insects, and I’ve heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

One of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.