Quotes About Knowledge

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

The only possibility to have a knowledge of both the Earth's nature and our own internal nature is through traditional climbing when you go on your own, far from safety, and encounter the unknown.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

People go on exploration; they're trying to find places that weren't known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

The vision of NASA is to reveal the unknown for the benefit of all humankind.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Unless you know the individual, it's very difficult to advise that individual as to what he needs to do.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.