As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior.
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man hi...
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden t...
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
