I learn something every time I go to work with a veteran. Every single time.
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.
In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
