Quotes About Knowledge

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many aspects of nature.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

I always remember liking school.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.

If you want to be great, there are so many talented players who have come in and out the league. But only a few of them are remembered as being great. It's because they were willing to say they don't know. And I'm willing to say that I don't know everything.

I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

I think facts remove assumptions.

I think if we can educate ourselves and educate our kids and educate guys in the NBA, we can remove assumptions. Once you remove those assumptions, I begin to understand someone else's background.

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts.

You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.