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"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
"Silence is as full with potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture."
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
"Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too."
"More the knowledge, lesser the ego. Lesser the knowledge, more the ego."
"I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts."
"Education is not something you can finish."
"Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher."
"Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults."
"If three of us travel together, I shall find two teachers."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day."
"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
"There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles than inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer... there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as these canals of Mars."
"It is easy to imagine a highly intelligent society with no particular interest in technology. It is easy to see around us examples of technology without intelligence. When we look into the universe for signs of artificial activities, it is technology and not intelligence that we must search for."
"I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."