Quotes About Knowledge

Conspiracy theories may also allow people to feel that they possess rare, important information that other people do not have, making them feel special and thus boosting their self-esteem.

Learn the rules before you break them.

Perhaps science was a retarded child because its parent was philosophy rather than engineering, because, we might say, it put Aristotle above Archimedes.

The search for predictive and explanatory general rules—that's the crux of our game.

at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

Once again I repeat: the aim pf physics at its most fundamental level is not just to describe the world but ti explain why it is the way it is.

El gran éxito de Newton consistió en explicar los movimientos de los planetas, no simplemente en describirlos. Newton no explicó la gravitación, y sabia que no lo había hecho, pero es lo que ocurre siempre con las explicaciones, que siempre queda algo para una futura explicación.

Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on, and it's not really that fundamental.

Todo es impredecible y no obedece a ningún plan, pero conduce a un conocimiento fiable, y disfrutamos al andar el camino.

Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.

There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In reading their writings, one continually wants to ask, "How do you know?

Los hombres no se contentan con consolarse mediante cuentos de dios y gigantes, o limitando sus pensamientos a los asuntos cotidianos de la vida. También construyen telescopios, satélites y aceleradores, y se sientan en sus escritorios durante horas interminables tratando de descifrar el significado de los datos que reúnen.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.

I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Information wants to be free.

Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.

I think that the more theoretical knowledge you obtain, the more multifarious and kaleidoscopic your view becomes of the reality that lurks behind concepts. This reality is so insatiably rich that a fixed determinant of a concept's position must simply be an absurdity.

In de weerdij van dien laatsten zomer dat ze te boere had overgebracht, was Mira van kind tot volslagen deerne uitgegroeid; slank en mager nog, onvast en los in de gewrichten, maar begaafd met al de kennis en streken om het verleidelijke van 't geen haar van vorm en vrouwelijk fatsoen nog ontbrak, als ontluikende schoonheid te doen uitkomen, en de rest als een belofte te laten gelden.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.