Quotes About Knowledge

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

Do your homework all of your life.

Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

Work democracy does not wish to prevent or prohibit anything. Its only intention is the fulfilment of the biological life functions, of love, work and knowledge.

Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.