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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”

“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”