Quotes of: Scientific-knowledge Keyword

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

George Washington

Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.

Debasish Mridha

...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.

Ally Condie

Without knowledge, there can be no intimacy. Without closeness, there can be no knowledge. Without trust, there can be no closeness.

Yonason Goldson

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, auto...

Atlas Shrugged

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never w...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looki...

Bellwether

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity su...

Miracles

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought ...

Lectures and Essays by the Late William Kingdon Clifford, F.R.S.

The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayer...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design

There have been applied sciences throughout the ages. ... However this so-called practice was not much more than paper in nearly all of these cases, and the various applied sciences were only lacking a bagatelle, namely proper scientific practice. Th...

Life

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that thi...

Siddhartha

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creati...

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact...

Karl Popper

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

B. F. Skinner

Where human knowledge ends the imagined God begins.

Enter Ruinland

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

The Knowledge of the Holy

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

The Lucian Uprising

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion