The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

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.

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

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

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.