“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.” IfsKnowsYearsWellsEnoughScienceNextRoomsKnowledgePathGreaterTelevisionDevelopmentConversationAchievementWindowFollowingFiftyOwnersSurprisingTelephonesRapidsWireless Author:Winston Churchill
“Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.” IfsKnowsDesireCommonKnowledgeClearDangerDevelopmentDemandAccessCommon SenseReverenceHumankindUnlimitedExtinction Author:Bill Joy
“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.” MayMeanDoeEndsBodyScienceCertainKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentAccountsIntuitionIntellectPoeticEndeavorIdleCertain Knowledge Author:Max Planck
“Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.” KnowsLifeSuccessKnowledgeStudyDevelopmentUglyButterflyMaximsThyselfKnow ThyselfUprisingPerniciousCaterpillars Author:Andre Gide
“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.” MenWantMindIdeasSciencePassionSecretKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentDiscoveryLogicPropertyErrorsMysteriousMinistersSparksDemonstrationCharter Book:Lectures on Modern History Source: Lectures on Modern History
“Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.” MindDoeRealReasonUseKnowledgeSkyDevelopmentBlueBlue Sky Author:Robert Crawford
“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.” TwoPastHumanityWealthPowerfulKnowledgeEconomyTakenEnvironmentEconomicCenturySecurityIgnoranceMaterialsDevelopmentComfortEconomicsIgnorantMost PowerfulElitesBrutalOver The PastEconomic DevelopmentPersonal Health Author:Ross Garnaut