Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

John Naisbitt

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Marie Curie

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

Theodore Zeldin

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Theodore Roethke

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

Theodor Adorno

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

The Weeknd

Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Albert Einstein

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Nicki Harrington

At that rate, it would take 30 years to get the college renovated. By that time, it would start all over again.

Mike Edwards

At the college and university level, poker is pretty much the hottest thing going.

E. Hicks

At 19 or 20 in Junior College I had a friend who was strumming a guitar and getting into folk, and I wanted to do that too.

Linda Johnsrud

(Community college students) may be more likely to respond to the marketplace.

Liang Yanfang

Computers have opened my eyes and helped my study. And now I have a dream to go to college in a large city.