Educational Sayings

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

I am not an inventor, I am a discoverer.

A priest who is a saint told me: 'Women are the ones who move history forward.'

To him who devotes his life to science, nothing can be more important than the study of its history.

I am busy just now again on the old subject of light and experiment, and hope to have some new views to bring out.

The only way of discovering the extent of the laws of nature is to try to transcend them.

I have been a fool, but I have learned from my folly.

to be an intellectual, to be a writer, it to wear a sign on your back saying I'm an enemy of the state.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

No law of nature, however general, has been established without a multitude of experiments and observations.

The path to the new physics was paved by the discovery of the quantum of action.

The pioneer in a new field of knowledge is never a popular man.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

The present quantum mechanics is not a theory in the sense of the old theories, but rather a collection of rules for the calculation of probabilities.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I die as I have lived, a servant of science and a victim of the French Revolution.