Quotes About Knowledge

Until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to.

La información es un faro, un garrote, una rama de olivo, en total, un elemento de disuasión, dependiendo de quién la maneje y cómo.

rely on accumulated data rather than on individual anecdotes

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. —John Adams

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. —André Gide

given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....

Because each day is different, I thrive on creating something out of nothing, and I love running a business. I also flourish when I know what's going on across the company and who's doing what with whom and why. I love learning from customers, and I marvel at the knowledge and experience of people who contribute to the creation of great products.

There are two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand instinctively that the story of The Flood and the story of The Tower of Babel are the same thing, and those who don't.

The history of knowledge conventionally focuses on breakthrough ideas and conceptual leaps. But the blind spots on the map, the dark continents of error and prejudice, carry their own mystery as well. How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline—the sociology of error.

An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence." We're blind to our blindness.

The second analog-era mechanism that encourages serendipity involves the physical limitations of the print newspaper, which forces you to pass by a collection of artfully curated stories on a variety of topics before you open up the section that most closely matches your existing passions and knowledge.

You and I may not live to see the day," Snow explained to the young curate, "and my name may be forgotten when it comes; but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past; and it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear.

Whitehead was not an expert, an official, an authority. He was a local. That was his great strength.

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

Está en la naturaleza de las buenas ideas el subirse a hombros de los gigantes que las precedieron, lo que implica que, en alguna medida, toda innovación importante resulta ser fundamentalmente una red.

PRINTING PRESS (1440)

Steven Johnson

John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during

If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look everything up.

The error is needed to set off the truth, much as a dark background is required for exhibiting the brightness of a picture.

LOGARITHMS (1614)

BLOOD CIRCULATION (1628)

You can't scrub everything," says Lorenzo. "Information gets what it wants, and it wants to be free.

Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to tweak the knobs and levers in our brain. When we get it right, it produces those invaluable sensations of selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness.