Quotes About Knowledge

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

I didn't go to university; I hardly went to school, but I grew up among people well versed in Henry James and Proust, and just felt this endless, total inadequacy.

I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

Trump has claimed he knows more about ISIS than America's leading generals. Clearly, this is also total nonsense; he doesn't seem to have done the slightest thing to educate himself about ISIS.

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

The idea that "there's something we don't know," given a certain wave function, is an outdated relic of our intuitive insistence that what we observe is what really exists. Quantum mechanics teaches us otherwise.

The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.

What bugs us, or should, is our lack of understanding about what is actually happening.

Are you sure you're not a Boltzmann Brain? Or at least, do you know your local environment didn't recently fluctuate into existence? How do you know you're

On the other hand, in the memorable words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

But honest physicists admit that we don't truly understand quantum mechanics.

C. P. Snow—British intellectual, physicist, and novelist—is perhaps best known for his insistence that the "Two Cultures" of the sciences and the humanities had grown apart and should both be a part of our common civilization.

Cuanto más sabemos sobre el mundo, más pequeños e insignificantes para su funcionamiento descubrimos que somos.

la ciencia es un viaje en el que buena parte de la diversión está, sin duda alguna, en el trayecto.

you're looking for absolute knowledge about the ultimate reality of the universe. I don't have that knowledge. Nobody does. What I have is faith. And what I do know is, people have an inborn need to believe in the spirit, and ritual helps sustain that belief.

A dog doesn't understand mathematics, but that doesn't mean mathematics doesn't exist.

What I believe is we're able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on phenomena itself, rejecting metaphysical conclusions and false certainty, however comforting they may be.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies concerning it.