Quotes About Knowledge

Arun Jaitely challenged me to a debate on national affairs, but when I said he should include Amritsar and Punjab in the discussion, he shied away. He didn't agree because he doesn't know much about Punjab.

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.

It's important to have IT knowledge; it's important to increase every government agency's IT capability.

We lack an educated, resilient citizenry capable of navigating the increasing complexities of daily life.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.

If you go back to the 17th century, scientists generally weren't rewarded much at all for sharing discoveries, and as a result, they conducted a lot of their research very, very secretively indeed.

Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.

Mais celui qui parle le langage de la raison est celui qui aime le moins. Gauvain savait déjà cette vérité-là (52).

But will science ever account for it all? That I leave to God.

Knowledge is but a painful effort wasted, A bitter drowning in a bitter sea.

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.