Knowledge Quotes - Page 32

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate field'. It claims that the whole range of phenomena, mental as well as physical-the entire universe-is its field. It asserts that the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.

If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

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 of science, have felt the lure of the uncharted seas of space, and through their provision of instrumental means the sphere of exploration has made new discoveries and brought back permanent additions to our knowledge of the heavens.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

How little we know of what there is to know.

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.