Access Quote by Bill Joy

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance…

— Benjamin Franklin

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?

— Aldous Huxley

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad…

— Cory Doctorow

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

— Jane Rule

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the…

— Stephen Hawking

Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and…

— Claude Bernard

No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common…

— Francis Bacon

“New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing…

— Arthur C. Clarke

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

— Charles Tart

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The…

— Henry David Thoreau