Quotes About Knowledge

White girls know the names of everything.

You seem to know a lot about this particular genre we're in," he says.

In complex organisms the head, or anterior pole of the body, is the part that processes information, the posterior pole the part that engages in sexual reproduction and excretion of waste. From that orientation plants live with their heads in the Earth, their asses in the air. We love the smell, usually, of their reproductive organs and pick them to give to our beloveds (a highly suggestive though unconscious act). We don't, most of us, really know plants at all.

You should never denigrate the form in which your perceptions arise, never think yourself less-than, if you do not use scientific metaphors. Each of us must reclaim our ability to know the world directly, deeply and well. (Any feeling of less-than is merely a symptom of the colonization of your mind.) Don't leave it in the hands of experts. That is how we got into this mess in the first place.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Since knowledge [thought] is not contained within a person's cranium but is everywhere at once as was indicated by the double-slit experiment, belief or knowledge held jointly by a group of people would logically seem to be more powerful than that held only by a single individual.

the point is that this experiment proves thought and knowledge are not confined within the brain. Quantum physicists say it's part of the whole. Anyone

The public library was more accommodating;

Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.

Nearly all the wisdom that we possess, that is sound and true wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

R. C. would later say that theology is doxology; that is to say that studying God and knowing God lead to praising God and worshiping God.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

What I knew about love I could put in a thimble. It was akin to my knowledge of "red," for what did I know about it? I knew it was an important color.