Human Knowledge Quotes

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it.… — Herbert Simon
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're… — Jimmy Wales
The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who… — Robert M. Pirsig
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on… — Michael Jackson
We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory… — Robertson Davies
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in… — Barbara Mertz
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,… — Vladimir Lenin
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray… — Charles Dickens
Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. — Cory Doctorow
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. — Jostein Gaarder
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge. — Ashwin Sanghi
If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to… — Cornelius Van Til
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… — Joseph Paxton
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. — Walter Benjamin
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac… — James Marsh
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that… — Samuel Johnson
Since the dawn of mankind, human needs and desires have combined to produced ideas and inventions that make life easier and more productive. New technological… — Sid Meier's Civilization IV Civilopedia

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