Quotes by Knowledge In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Alfred North Whitehead real science knowledge No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover. Alfred North Whitehead passion science knowledge In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. Alfred North Whitehead details principles knowledge On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. Alfred North Whitehead fake branches knowledge In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. Alfred Romer loss science knowledge In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge. Alfred Russel Wallace acceptance science knowledge To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man. Alfred Smee success science knowledge Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love. Ali ibn Abi Talib islamic love knowledge Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know! Ali Sina islamic wisdom knowledge I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. Alice Walker glad knowledge thinking The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is. Allan Bloom reading book knowledge [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects. Allan McLeod Cormack learning knowledge school Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out. Alvin Toffler knowing reading knowledge Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. Alvin Toffler wisdom inspirational knowledge Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization. Amartya Sen fighting class knowledge Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. Ambrose Bierce small-parts ignorance knowledge Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. Ambrose Bierce ignorance book knowledge The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Bierce quality love knowledge IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Ambrose Bierce kind science knowledge CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself. Ambrose Bierce consolation men knowledge «1234567891011»
