- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
- People think of education as something that they can finish.
- There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
- It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
- The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
- My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
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