knowledge Quotes

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.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.