In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.
With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
