Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.
Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Know yourself to improve yourself.
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It’s OK to say, “I don’t know.”
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.
Sharing knowledge is the most fundamental act of friendship. Because it is a way you can give something without losing something.
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.
There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.