Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 20
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Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point of view when they make us acquainted with the law of a series of uniformly recurring phenomena, or, it may be, only give a negative result showing an incompleteness in our knowledge of such a law, till then held to be perfect.Collection: Knowledge
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.Collection: Knowledge
If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.Collection: Knowledge
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is power as well as fame.Collection: Knowledge
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.Collection: Knowledge
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.Collection: Knowledge
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.Collection: Knowledge
With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.Collection: Knowledge
In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.Collection: Knowledge
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end.Collection: Knowledge
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.Collection: Knowledge
There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.Collection: Knowledge
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.Collection: Knowledge
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.Collection: Knowledge
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.Collection: Knowledge
When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.Collection: Knowledge
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of the discovery of the infinitesimal calculus, and in a measure also when in the development of projective geometry obstacles were suddenly removed which, having hemmed progress for a long time, permitted a stream of investigators to pour in upon virgin soil. There is no longer any browsing along the beaten paths; and into the primeval forest only those may venture who are equipped with the sharpest tools.Collection: Knowledge
The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.Collection: Knowledge
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.Collection: Knowledge
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.Collection: Knowledge
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.Collection: Knowledge
A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.Collection: Knowledge
All models are wrong, but some are useful.Collection: Knowledge
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.Collection: Knowledge
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.Collection: Knowledge
All true knowledge contradicts common sense.Collection: Knowledge
The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.Collection: Knowledge
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.Collection: Knowledge
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion of unexceptionable testimony, must be deemed as absurd as that of deducing the history of ancient Rome solely from the medals or other monuments of antiquity it still exhibits, or the scattered ruins of its empire, to the exclusion of a Livy, a Sallust, or a Tacitus.Collection: Knowledge
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen in their evolution. In the natural sciences both theories and descriptive systems grow by adaptation to the increasing knowledge and experience of the scientists. In the social sciences, systems often issue fully formed from the mind of one man. Then they may be much discussed if they attract attention, but progressive adaptive modification as a result of the concerted efforts of great numbers of men is rare.Collection: Knowledge
All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.Collection: Knowledge
Science is public, not private, knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.Collection: Knowledge
We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.Collection: Knowledge
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.Collection: Knowledge
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.Collection: Knowledge
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.Collection: Knowledge
...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.Collection: Knowledge
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put together: not all natural kinds (not all the classes of things and events about which there are important, counterfactual supporting generalizations to make) are, or correspond to, physical natural kinds.Collection: Knowledge
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.Collection: Knowledge
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.Collection: Knowledge
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.Collection: Knowledge