Quotes About Knowledge

As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn't lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.

Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the allure of the quantum, the tantalizing possibility that we are immersed in mystery, forever bound within the shores of the Island of Knowledge. Unless you are intellectually numb, you can't escape the awe-inspiring feeling that the essence of reality is unknowable.

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't.

It's what we don't know that matters.

If large portions of the world remain unseen or inaccessible to us, we must consider the meaning of the word "reality" with great care.

Apenas aqueles que passaram longos anos buscando a verdade, imersos na escuridão da ignorância, podem compreender o júbilo transcendente da descoberta.

humana é capaz de desvendar todos os mistérios. Isto é

O importante aqui é valorizar o processo, é o querer entender que atribui significado às nossas vidas. A essência fundamental do apetite humano é essa curiosidade pelo saber, qualquer que seja ele. A ciência é apenas um dos canais que utilizamos para conhecer o mundo e também a nossa essência.

how we try to make sense of the world and of our place in it—it should be obvious that our approach is fundamentally limited in scope. This realization should open doors, not close them, since it makes the search for knowledge an open-ended pursuit, an endless romance with the unknown.

Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.

Uma vez criado, o conhecimento não pode ser calado jamais. Sempre haverá aqueles que lutarão para preservá-lo, difundi-lo, movidos por razões nobres ou perversas.

and [thanks] to Ludmila Parks for explaining to me that the world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have read the Brothers Karamazov and those who have not.

People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find, rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find.

We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It's based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.

In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Saber es una cosa y sentir es otra muy distinta.

You believe. You just don't put a name to it.

It takes a wise man to learn wisdom from a wise woman!

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If Nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if Nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.' One