The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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.
