975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“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.” — Wilhelm Dilthey

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“One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.” — Luc Montagnier

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“When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.” — Marvin Minsky

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“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.” — Amy Waldman

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“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” — Bill Veeck

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“To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.” — Wilhelm Dilthey

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“A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.” — Trofim Lysenko

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“The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.” — Simon Greenleaf

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“Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.” — Wilhelm Dilthey

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“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.” — Ralph Thomas Walker

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“As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.” — Jurgen Klinsmann

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“But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.” — Steven Hatfill

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“I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.” — Walter Gilbert

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“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.” — Rory Bremner

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“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.” — Trofim Lysenko

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“The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.” — John Bright

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“Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.” — Trofim Lysenko

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“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.” — Susanne Langer

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“But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?” — Albert Claude

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“Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.” — John Tyndall

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“Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.” — Marie de France

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“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.” — Harriet Martineau

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“I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.” — Steven Hatfill

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“The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.” — Ike Skelton

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“We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.” — Asa Gray

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