Learned Quotes

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I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime. — Marlo Morgan
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator… — Walter Russell
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer… — Richard Hamming
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… — Robin G. Collingwood
All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any… — Jonathan Swift
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I… — Jacob Bronowski
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition. — Isaac Watts
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago… — Hermann Kolbe
A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists… — George Wald
After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to… — Michio Kaku
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task… — William Graham Sumner
To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this, no more do… — Victor Hugo
In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a… — George W. Bush
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet… — Michio Kaku
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion… — Galileo Galilei
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what… — Elmore Leonard

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