We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

You can't learn less.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?