Quotes About Knowledge

All the books in the Imperial Library will be burned," he said. "That's rotten!" said Annie. "Indeed it is!" the scholar said quietly.

Reading is the passport to countless adventures

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Books were more valuable to him than gold.

Reading is a passport to countless adventures

Reading is the passport for countless adventures

Science has the answer to every question that can be asked. However, science reserves the right to change that answer should additional data become available.

Pearsall is not a doctor, or not, at least, one of the medical variety. He is a doctor of the variety that gets a Ph.D. and attaches it to his name on self-help book covers.

If you don't have a pair of cadaver shoes, you're not doing enough research.

To Huang Ti's credit, though, he managed, without ever disassembling a corpse, to figure out that "the blood of the body is under the control of the heart" and that "the blood current flows in a continuous circle and never stops." In other words, the man figured out what William Harvey figured out, four thousand years before Harvey and without laying open any family members.

My bias is that it does exist. But I would never say that I know that. Until I prove it.

Expert economics coming to the assistance of ambitious unintelligence." Let them chew cake.

But students weren't going to pay tuition to learn arm and leg anatomy;

I'll never know the particulars of what you'll be doing with my cold hull, but I trust it will be educational. All that is good and noble in this world begins with education. Learn well and live well.

someone who knows a little more than diddly. I'm scheduled to meet with the Center's wildlife genetics staff, upstairs in the Long Speak Room, which is an amusingly apt name for a government conference room (except that it isn't—a realization that will dawn when I take note of the plaque by the door, which reads: Longs Peak Room).

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock. - Frankenstein p115

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.

How many things are we upon the brink of discovering if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries