Quotes About Knowledge

La causa de la miseria humana evitable no suele ser tanto la estupidez como la ignorancia, particularmente la ignorancia de nosotros mismos.

Scientific insight made him feel something, a soaring sensation, a recognition that he could only compare to falling in love. And as he used to say: "When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly ignorance about ourselves.

En la ciencia no hay preguntas prohibidas, no hay temas demasiado sensibles o delicados para ser explorados, no hay verdades sagradas.

la ciencia es más que un cuerpo de conocimiento, es una manera de pensar.

Carl Sagan Quotes We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan

La ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.

We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

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

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and our willingness to embrace what's true rather than what feels good.

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.

Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based – or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug – it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault.

To read is to voyage through time.

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return.

Saber muito não lhe torna inteligente. A inteligência se traduz na forma que você recolhe, julga, maneja e, sobretudo, onde e como aplica esta informação.

A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.

Hemos preparado una civilización global en la cual la mayoría de los elementos cruciales dependen profundamente de la ciencia y la tecnología. También hemos dispuesto las cosas de tal forma que casi nadie comprende la ciencia y la tecnología. Esto es la receta para el desastre. Puede que podamos seguir así por un tiempo, pero tarde o temprano esta mezcla explosiva de ignorancia y poder nos explotará en la cara.

We are the way for the universe to know itself.

Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.

His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of him. This room, thirty by twenty feet, and the walls of shelves filled with books, had for him the murmuring of many voices. In the books of Herodotus, Tacitus, Rabelais, Thomas Browne, John Milton, and scores of others, he had found men of face and voice more real to him than many a man he had met for a smoke and a talk.

My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.