“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

“Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.”

“If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.”

“Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.”

“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

“I could not think without writing.”