Quotes About Knowledge

Then I remembered that these men didn't seem any cleverer than I was; they were highly trained, that was all. If one worked hard enough, one could master anything.

Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition. All that is required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal—and power.

Magic is just science we haven't figured out yet

Magic is just science we don't understand yet

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope towards a future.

That is why Jean could tap the knowledge of her unborn son.

The newborn Athena, suddenly knowing far more about the future than the humans who had created her, had immediately been faced with a dilemma.

I'm only an ex-astronomer;

He was, Sadler thought glumly, rather in the position of a man in a darkened coal cellar, looking for a black cat that might not be there. What was worse, to make the analogy more accurate he would have to be a man who didn't know what a cat looked like, even when he saw one.

well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

to understand the future, it was necessary to know the past.

But they knew in their hearts that once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization… Childhood's End - Ch. 15

New knowledge—new wisdom—in realms we have never dreamed of before. It may lure us away from the dangers we have encountered: for certainly nothing we can learn from Nature will ever be as great a threat as the peril we have uncovered in our own minds.

El anciano lo miraba con firmeza a través del abismo de los siglos; en sus palabras pesaba la inmensurable sabiduría de una larga vida en contacto con hombres y máquinas.

He was not the first man, Cliff Leyland told himself bitterly, to know the exact second and the precise manner of his death.

But the age of the Machine-entities swiftly passed. In their ceaseless experimenting, they had learned to store knowledge in the structure of space itself, and to preserve their thoughts for eternity in frozen lattices of light. They could become creatures of radiation, free at last from the tyranny of matter.

mystery was piling upon mystery, and that for all his efforts he was getting further and further from any understanding of the truths he sought.

The worst thing is, they get bored. The disadvantage of overeducation

But as those who knew the truth said nothing, and those who knew nothing said too much, when night came the city was in a state of extreme confusion.

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand;

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

And just as Columbus's discoveries fixed the geography of Earth forever in human minds, so we learned the geography of the universe

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. (Goethe)—We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.