Quotes About Knowledge

science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]

Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.

the hopeless sense of a civilization destroyed for nothing; the knowledge that we could have prevented it and did not.

O método da ciência, por mais enfadonho e ranzinza que pareça, é muito mais importante do que as descobertas dela.

La verdad puede ser confusa o contraria a la intuición. Puede contradecir creencias profundas. Experimentando, llegamos a controlarla.

She consented to rote memorization, but knew that it was at best the hollow shell of an education. She did the minimum work necessary to do well in her courses, and pursued other matters.

Önümde ölüm ve sürekli kölelik bulunduÄŸuna göre, y?ld?zlar?n gizlerini araÅŸt?rma zahmetine neden gireyim?

saben realmente lo que afirman saber?

Like it or not, we are stuck with science. We had better make the best of it. When we finally come to terms with it and fully recognize its beauty and its power, we will find, in spiritual as well as in practical matters, that we have made a bargain strongly in our favor.

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absences

I do not want to believe. I want to know.

where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise wrote the poet Thomas Gray.

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Bilimi (daha doÄŸrusu iÅŸleyiÅŸ ilkelerini) hiç duymad?ysan?z, sahte bilime kucak açt???n?z?n fark?nda bile olmayabilirsiniz.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. EPICTETUS, Roman philosopher and former slave, Discourses

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Una científica compañera mía me contaba un reciente viaje que realizó a la meseta de Nueva Guinea, donde visitó una tribu todavía en la edad de piedra que apenas había tenido contactos con la civilización. Ignoraban lo que son los relojes de pulsera, las bebidas refrescantes y los alimentos congelados. Pero conocían el Apolo 11. Sabían que los humanos han pisado la Luna.

explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival.

El secreto, con pocas excepciones, es profundamente incompatible con la democracia y la ciencia.

science to forge a potent partnership against pseudo-science.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. A

La idea general de una aplicación democrática del escepticismo es que todo el mundo debería tener las herramientas esenciales para valorar eficaz y constructivamente las afirmaciones de conocimiento

A God of the Gaps is assigned responsibility for what we do not yet understand. As