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Knowledge Quotes by Carl Sagan
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in…
- It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in…
- Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
- All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
- History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to…
- Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no…
- We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15…
- Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,…
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place…
- You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
- Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is,…
- Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,…
- You have to know the past to understand the present.
- We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
- The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with…
- Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong