Quotes About Knowledge

he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Consider the question suitably modified.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

You feel humiliated, my young man, because thinking you understood so much so well, you suddenly find that many very apparent things were unknown to you. Thinking you were one of the Lords of the Galaxy; you suddenly find that you stand near to destruction. Naturally, you will resent the ivory tower in which you lived; the seclusion in which you were educated; the theories on which you were reared.

Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Voy gülümsedi. Ä°ÅŸte bu fena. Ne zaman birisi belirli bir alanda tam bilgi sahibi olmad???n? belirterek konuya girse, arkas?ndan o konuda çok aç?k bir biçimde fikrini belirtecek demektir.

In short, the age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Now that is gone, and the youngsters have their glazed eyes fixed on the television tube. The result is clear. True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily dumbing down.

It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.

They are useful, but they are too strong—and too uncontrolled. They are Outlanders, educated apart from religion. On the one hand, we put knowledge into their hands, and on the other, we remove our strongest hold upon them.

Un nou-n?scut crede c? el reprezint? întregul univers, dar greÈ™eÈ™te - aÈ™a cum îÈ™i d? seama destul de repede. De aceea, el trebuie s? studieze lumea exterioar? lui - trebuie s? încerce s? înveÈ›e unde se afl? graniÈ›ele dintre persoana sa È™i restul lumii - pentru a putea înÈ›elege cine este È™i cum se cuvine s?-È™i duc? viaÈ›a.

During the century after Newton , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

If you think that those who are left, with practically no knowledge of the elements of science, or worse, still, with the distorted knowledge the priests receive, can penetrate at a bound to nuclear power, to electronics, to the theory of the hyperwarp – you have a very romantic and very foolish idea of science. It takes lifetimes of training and an excellent brain to get that far.

even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of trail and error. sometimes it works beautifully.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Now tell me what happened—in words. I want your translation of the mathematics.

Look heah, now, I've got the wuhks of all the old mastahs—the gweat ahchaeologists of the past. I wigh them against each othah—balance the disagweements—analyze the conflicting statements—decide which is pwobably cowwect—and come to a conclusion. That is the scientific method. At least"—patronizingly—"as I see it.

no matter how sure scientists think they are, nature has a way of surprising them.

Science is constructed out of approximations that gradually approach the truth

La verdad científica está más allá de toda lealtad y deslealtad.

Nowadays, of course, we are taught that the flat-Earth theory is wrong; that it is all wrong, absolutely. But it isn't. The curvature of the Earth is nearly 0 per mile, so that although the flat-Earth theory is wrong, it happens to be nearly right. That's why the theory lasted so long.

Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.