Our Knowledge Quotes
262 quotes by 214 authors
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Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence…
— Bruce Alberts
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we…
— J I Packer
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come…
— Barack Obama
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Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes…
— Walter Savage Landor
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To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the…
— Ronald Reagan
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In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the…
— Matthew Henry
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone…
— Murray Rothbard
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
— Henry David Thoreau
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If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in…
— Leo Szilard
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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
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I…
— Albert Einstein
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