Quotes About Knowledge

...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories prevail.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

Criminals are just regular people who didn't have time to read all the laws.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping.

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.