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Knowledge Quotes
"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
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"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list."
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
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"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then."
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"What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?"
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"What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos."
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"To breath through the truth is not the same with knowing it."
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"Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark."
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"Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, -The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows."
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"I can't protect you from knowledge."
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"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."
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"Why do we say razzle-dazzle instead of dazzle-razzle? Why super-duper, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, hocus-pocus, willy-nilly, hully-gully, roly-poly, holy moly, herky-jerky, walkie-talkie, namby-pamby, mumbo-jumbo, loosey-goosey, wing-ding, wham-bam, hobnob, razza-matazz, and rub-a-dub-dub? I thought you'd never ask. Consonants differ in "obstruency"-the degree to which they impede the flow of air, ranging from merely making it resonate, to forcing it noisily past an obstruction, to stopping it up altogether. The word beginning with the less obstruent consonant always comes before the word beginning with the more obstruent consonant. Why ask why?"
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"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."
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"Knowledge that can make miracles happen needs to be guarded carefully. If it falls into the wrong hands, miracles become disasters in no time."
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"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
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"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
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"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
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"Literacy rate tells us about the section of society who can read and write, but do we have a tool which can share the stats about out how many educated illiterates we have in our society."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
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"And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter."
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"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
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"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
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"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."
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"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge."
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"Careful evaluation of information that is portrayed as fact is critical."
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"Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited."
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"Wow, I miss Latin. So much fun - all those exciting verbs that don't come unit the end of the sentence. It's like a movie trailer for language."
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"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."
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"He had brought no possessions with him, he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands."
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"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."
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"The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."
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"More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution."
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"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."
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"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."
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