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“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.”

Ifs Knows Years Wells Enough Science Next Rooms Knowledge Path Greater Television Development Conversation Achievement Window Following Fifty Owners Surprising Telephones Rapids Wireless

Author:Winston Churchill

“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

“In a hollow head there is much room for knowledge.”

Rooms Knowledge Stupidity Hollow

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Would Be Action Forget Rooms Knowledge Knowing Learning Constitution Sake Fortunate Merciful Rubbish

Author:Anna Brackett

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”

World Want Book Rooms Knowledge Arms Weapons Doctors Seasons Library Teeth Doctor Who Arsenal Claws Library Books

Author:Russell T Davies

“There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.”

Life Trying Made Remember Born Answers Rooms Wonder Knowledge Theory Prepared Bottom Curiosity Curious Quests Forbidden Persuasive

Book:Burning your boats: the collected short stories

Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories