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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 men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge possession labor
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. Samuel Smiles
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 thinking intuition
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge. Rudolf Steiner
science opportunity progress
If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
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 progress theory
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
science thinking law
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?
science names bird
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
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 progress trying
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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.
wish
He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while. Mark Richt
wish pianist ifs
If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something. Woody Allen
wish care enough
If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. William James
wish faces impossible
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody. Roald Dahl
wish impossible holes
In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it. Robert Smith
wish my-sister candle
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true Sara Shepard
wish next anticipation
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
wish literature beginning-middle-and-end
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
wish conformity individualism
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. Salman Rushdie