Knowledge Quotes

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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. — Mark Twain
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied,… — Remy de Gourmont
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give… — Robert Frost
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability… — Samuel Johnson
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. — Clifford Stoll
Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that… — George W. Bush
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,… — Isaac Asimov
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
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… — John Herschel

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