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“Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.”

Form Rooms Knowledge Knowing Fields Historical Leaving Variety Judgement

Book:History as the Story of Liberty

Source: History as the Story of Liberty

“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.”

Needs Reason Facts Form Faith Easy Knowledge Objects Involved Pure Eternal Historical Indifferent Absurdity Historical Knowledge

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”

Men World Ideas Hands Able Form Science Lying Given Steps Knowledge Shapes Spring Add Strikes Stores Bread Interpretation Predecessors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”

Littles Long Hard Form Speak Language Easy Knowledge Mystery Ignorance Speech Abuse Mysterious Height Vague Mistaken Speculation Prescriptions Hindrance True Knowledge Deep Learning

Author:John Locke

“The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”

Form Knowledge Knowing Essentials Direct Representation Beam

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.”

Humans Body Form Given Differences Knowledge Aim Human Knowledge Human Power

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”

“It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.”

Way Wells Sometimes Hard Reason Form Knowledge Example Particular Expression Logic Best Way Limitation Reason Why Reasoning Precise Predictions Analogies

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience of fellow composers. His message is not devoid of universality but its universality is disembodied and anonymous. While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work.”

“Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.”

Humans May Mean Reason God Form Science Existence Knowledge Knowing Subjects Evidence Human Life Reason Why Owing Shortness

Author:Protagoras

“All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.”

Firsts Wells Form Science Understanding Knowledge Objects Ought Judgment Resolve Probability

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.”

Believe Long Made Matter Action Form Science Belief Force I Believe Natural Common Opinion Knowledge Lovers Various Conviction Related Dependent Manifest

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”

Years Firsts Wells Littles Two Would Be Form Science Animal Results Known Knowledge Teach Teaching Thousand Hundred Dollars Species Curiosity Shops Dozen Shells Well Known

Author:Louis Agassiz

“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”

“[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.”

Thinking Humans Form Science President Natural Knowledge History Habit Safe Daily Life Human History Naturalist Uniting Natural History Theodore Technical Knowledge Wild Life

Author:John Burroughs

“To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.”

“We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.”

Ifs Knows Self Earth Form Science Growth Wonder Knowledge Creatures Spring Constitution Plant Obvious Stranger Ignorant Womb Obvious Things

Author:Joseph Glanvill

“Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.”

World Way Facts Stories Form Science Literature Fiction Knowledge Practice History Knowing Fashion Objects Accounts Function Historical Narrative Appropriate Biology Organisms Discourse

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.”

Knows Said Might Form Science Knowledge Essentials Cruelty Linked

Book:Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

Source: Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie

“It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.”

Should Mind Seems Form Knowledge Philosopher Materialism Relaxed

Book:Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection: Philosophical Essays

Source: Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection: Philosophical Essays

“Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.”

Mind Whole Use Form Knowledge Arrogance Vulgar Familiarity

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.”

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