Quotes About Knowledge

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

My left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.

As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Who loves not Knowledge? Who shall rail Against her beauty? May she mix With men and prosper! Who shall fix Her pillars? Let her work prevail.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.