Quotes About Knowledge

DüÅŸün ki ben bir bak???kçan?n mimarisinin t?pk?üretimini yapabilme yetisindeyim, bileÅŸimini biliyorum, gerekli teknolojim var... bir bak???kça yarat?yorum ve okyanusa b?rak?yorum. Ama bunu niye yapt???m? bilmiyorum, iÅŸlevini bilmiyorum, bak???kçan?n okyanus için ne anlama geldiÄŸini bilmiyorum...

La ignorancia de la propia ignorancia acompaña firmemente al conocimiento.

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Cada vez hay más científicos y menos sabios.

no hay cosa que deseéis más que averiguar lo que no podéis averiguar! Pero qué le vamos a hacer.

El ser humano no es capaz de formular todos los conocimientos que debe a sus experiencias personales.

This was how I saw it: the Senders definitely had had no intention of sending us a Pandora's box; but we, like burglars, forced the lock, and stamped upon the plundered contents everything that in Earth's science was mercenary, predatory.

Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys.

according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' -- owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.

El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o usus oscuras puertas atrancadas. - Solaris

El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas. El ser humano ha emprendido el viaje en busca de otros mundos, otras civilizaciones, sin haber conocido a fondo sus propios escondrijos, sus callejones sin salida, sus pozos, o sus oscuras puertas atrancadas. - Solaris

Ä°nsanoÄŸlu baÅŸka dünyalar, baÅŸka uygarl?klar bulmak için yola düÅŸmüÅŸtü ama, karanl?k geçitlerde gizli bölmelerden oluÅŸan kendi öz labirentini tan?mam??, kendi mühürlediÄŸi kap?lar?n ard?nda neler yapt???n? bulup ç?karamam??t?.

The same thing that gives us wisdom gives us plaque.

Nefretinin kendine ait bir varoluÅŸu olduÄŸunu biliyordu, her zaman onun içinde, anatomisindeydi; insan nas?l ki safrakesesinin sadece ÅŸiddetli bir bulant? an?nda, dilindeki tat tomurcuklar?na ac? safra yükselirken deÄŸil de hep orada olduÄŸunu bilirse, o da bunu öyle biliyordu.

Fue Oha el que respiró ruidosamente. Aunque no quería, Regina se echó a reír, ya que él no sabía nada de la magia de convertir las preocupaciones en sonidos que no revelaban nada de las cosas que sólo la propia cabeza debía saber.

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn possessed no words with which to tell what they had come to know from their long existence.

Smart is not something you are... Smart is something you get!

We favor associations that are familiar. We have a bias for new knowledge that readily maps to existing knowledge; things that fit with our expectations and biases don't challenge us to accommodate new information.

Sometimes, a different way of representing information is the key to understanding something as complicated as the subatomic world.

Information is cheap; understanding is expensive.

Learning and education have frequently degenerated into the systematic accumulation of facts and information.

All believers, by definition, must be agnostics. The moment you declare that you believe in God or the law of karma, you are acknowledging that you do not know whether they exist or not. For if you did know, you would have no need to believe. Only fools, fanatics, and omniscient beings would claim to know such things.

An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.