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knowledge love mainly power pursuit
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power Bertrand Russell
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength. Robert Southey
knowledge men ends
The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him. Robert Penn Warren
knowledge science thinking
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. Robert M. Pirsig
knowledge independent learning
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
knowledge wish knows
I wish I knew what I know now before. Rod Stewart
responsibility understanding
It is my understanding that they have walled her off from day one and that she has had no decision-making responsibility in the case. Laurie Levenson
responsibility age succeed
You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed. Richelle Mead
responsibility safety mutual-fund
Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. Ron Chernow
responsibility home air
There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air. Travis Barker
responsibility thinking effort
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. William J. Clinton
responsibility opportunity america
When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.
responsibility opportunity profound
No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.
responsibility community benefits
Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.
responsibility order decision
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome. William James
science opportunity thinking
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.
science measurement momentum
Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.
science play theoretical-physics
It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.
science thinking doubt
Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.
science tourists philosopher
Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
science reflection desire
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe [Nature] does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
science errors certain
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
science camels world
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund. Richard Dawkins
science curiosity fields
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it. Richard Whately