Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other …

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear…

'I was never bound to what was already done, was already experimented'

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You h…

You have to be creative to do science. Otherwise you're just repeating tired formulas