knowledge Quotes

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

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

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

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

A home without books is a body without soul.