Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 18
Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 18 provides more knowledge quotes.
On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto.Collection: Knowledge
Theorists tend to peak at an early age; the creative juices tend to gush very early and start drying up past the age of fifteen-or so it seems. They need to know just enough; when they're young they haven't accumulated the intellectual baggage.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.Collection: Knowledge
For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.Collection: Knowledge
There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.Collection: Knowledge
Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.Collection: Knowledge
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.Collection: Knowledge
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.Collection: Knowledge
Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.Collection: Knowledge
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.Collection: Knowledge
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.Collection: Knowledge
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.Collection: Knowledge
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.Collection: Knowledge
The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.Collection: Knowledge
One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.Collection: Knowledge
I know everything except myself.Collection: Knowledge
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.Collection: Knowledge
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man.Collection: Knowledge
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.Collection: Knowledge
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.Collection: Knowledge
If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Collection: Knowledge
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical fabric of the universe, and that they are also at play in biological processes. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?Collection: Knowledge
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.Collection: Knowledge
The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.Collection: Knowledge
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.Collection: Knowledge
I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!Collection: Knowledge
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.Collection: Knowledge
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.Collection: Knowledge
Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.Collection: Knowledge
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.Collection: Knowledge
At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.Collection: Knowledge
The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.Collection: Knowledge
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.Collection: Knowledge
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.Collection: Knowledge
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.Collection: Knowledge
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.Collection: Knowledge
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.Collection: Knowledge
For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.Collection: Knowledge
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'Collection: Knowledge
What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.Collection: Knowledge
A man who is all theory is like "a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea." ... Theories and speculations may be indulged in with safety only as long as they are based on facts that we can go back to at all times and know that we are on solid ground.Collection: Knowledge
They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.Collection: Knowledge