The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. —Terry Prachett More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “knowledge” As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. —Matt Cartmill More about this quote Tags: humor meaning knowledge science facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. —Jacques Cousteau More about this quote Tags: knowledge curiosity science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. —Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. —Matt Cartmill More about this quote Tags: humor meaning knowledge science facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. —Jacques Cousteau More about this quote Tags: knowledge curiosity science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. —Blaise Pascal More about this quote Tags: knowledge breadth depth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. —Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge teaching Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email