Quotes About Knowledge

Other than a little training in commercial math at what was known as an "abacus school," Leonardo was mainly self-taught. He often seemed defensive about being an "unlettered man," as he dubbed himself with some irony. But he also took pride that his lack of formal schooling led him to be a disciple of experience and experiment.

the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

online encyclopedia. Jimmy Wales was born in 1966

The school as at fault for trying to make me memorise stupid stuff rather than stimulating me

Ward Cunningham's wiki software.

Jobs recalled the incident vividly because it was his first realization that his father did not know everything.

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water-jar.

Study of light hitting a head.

old physicist joke: they knew that the approach worked in practice, but could they make it work in theory?

Leonardo had a free-range mind that merrily wandered across all the disciplines of the arts, sciences, engineering, and humanities. His knowledge of how light strikes the retina helped inform the perspective in The Last Supper, and on a page of anatomical drawings depicting the dissection of lips he drew the smile that would reappear in the Mona Lisa. He knew that art was a science and that science was an art.

Plato inscribed over the door of his Academy: "Let no one who is not a mathematician read my work.

I ended up having more than forty interviews and conversations with him.

Then I would explain, it was no use trying to learn math unless they could communicate it with other people."4

La gente que sabe de lo que está hablando no necesita PowerPoint

My mind, having been much more improved by reading than Keimer's, I suppose it was for that reason my conversation seemed more valued. They had me to their houses, introduced me to their friends, and showed me much civility.

The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he

El valor de una educación universitaria no es el aprendizaje de muchos datos, sino el entrenamiento de la mente para pensar

Scientists who proclaim that space comes to an end somewhere are under some obligation to tell us what lies beyond it.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think," he said.55 One

His life was a constant quest for unifying theories.

Una fe insensata en la autoridad es el peor enemigo de la verdad.