Quotes About Knowledge

The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

the poet William Blake wrote in his 'Proverbs of Hell' that 'The road of excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom', he wasn't joking?

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once.

College graduates spend 16 years gaining skills that will help them command a higher salary, yet little or no time is spent helping them save, invest and grow their money." – Vince Shorb –

it's important to keep in mind that the best form of learning comes from experience. Learning by doing is the most effective teaching method, and the upcoming chapters in this book will show you how to do just that.

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This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

Nowadays, only the willfully ignorant dismiss the truth that we evolved from earlier ancestors.

how much of what seemed known and well established is, in fact, unknown and steeped in ambiguity.

However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist.

We are all Rumsfeldian, if we are doing science right.

The greatest achievement of the Human Genome Project was working out exactly how little we knew— known unknowns. Once you know what you need to know, the future is laid out in front of you. And so, the map was sketched, and the landscape was set out— where to explore, and what we might be hunting for.

was not an apple that gave us this knowledge – apples are a product of our own agricultural ingenuity. It was how we lived our lives.

Darwin, with typical prescience, suspected that this might be the case: Man alone is capable of progressive improvement. That he is capable of incomparably greater and more rapid improvement than is any other animal, admits of no dispute; and this is mainly due to his power of speaking and handing down his acquired knowledge.

Yes, the presentations and formal lectures at scientific meetings can be dreadfully important, but – and this is a trade secret – they can be breathtakingly boring. Sometimes

Forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories . . . they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

All scientists need to be wrong as often as they can be, for that is the place from which we discover what is correct, and inch ever closer to the truth.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge . . . says Darwin in The Descent of Man, his study of the evolution of humans from our hairier ancestors.

Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

Too often our knowledge of the extraordinary victories achieved by the Wehrmacht in the summer of 1940 obscures the precariousness of Hitler's situation over the winter of 1939–40.