You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.