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Quotes About World

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
~ Cory Doctorow
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.
~ Dean Kamen
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
~ Sam Harris
The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
~ George Soros
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like power.
~ Susan Sontag
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
~ Laurence Sterne
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.
~ Gloria Steinem, Marilyn
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
~ Sergey Brin
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.
~ Ronald Fisher
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
~ Albert Einstein
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
~ Alan Kay
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
~ Jimmy Wales
The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.
~ John Dryden
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
~ Italo Calvino
We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.
~ Marianne Williamson
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.
~ Paul Valery
Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.
~ V. S. Subramanya Iyer
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
~ A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
~ Will Smith
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.
~ Annie Besant
It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.
~ Rose Macaulay