Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy,… — Bill Bullard Copy Share Image
There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge.… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of mankind, human needs and desires have combined to produced ideas and inventions that make life easier and more… — Sid Meier's Civilization IV Civilopedia Copy Share Image
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations'… — Anthony Terence Quincey Stewart Copy Share Image
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It has been said at various points in history that the current sum of human knowledge is but a fraction of that… — Robert Robert Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
“For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
The main object of the work was to present such a survey of the advances already made in physical knowledge, and of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Human knowledge, by its nature, has limits, so some questions must remain mysteries. Some religions treat such mysteries as secrets that the… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate the nearer we arrive unto it. For what… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Since all terms that are defined are defined by means of other terms, it is clear that human knowledge must always be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
“Chateau and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The astronauts put their lives at risk to help other people. There's a strength of belief in a person like that that… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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