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“In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.”

Knows May Turns Knowledge Masters Please Interfere

Author:Plato

“A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.”

Turns Knowledge Knowing Wise

Book:Hollow Hills

Source: Hollow Hills

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”

Should Turns Knowledge Complaining Absurd Unthinkable Thinkable

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness.”

Turns Knowledge Greatness

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”

Mind I Can Turns Secret Knowledge Sitting Educate Lacking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”

Humans May Long Joy Turns Sports Dark Knowledge Power Ignorance Conscience Blind Giants Buried Fabric Pillars Knowledge Is Power Scruples Babylon Unbound

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.”

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Author:Clifford Stoll

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.”

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Book:Our Eternity

Source: Our Eternity

“Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.”

Source: Die Wissenschafts Philosophie Thomas S. Kuhns: Rekonstruktion und Grundlagenprobleme

“I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.”

Knows Men Science Turns Known Knowledge Stones Gold Philosopher Pursuit Poor Richard

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”

“It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.”

Ifs Knows May Said Science Turns Answers Knowledge Learning Research Expected Nothing New

Book:Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

Source: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers

“Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Hard Turns Principles Knowledge Advice Subjects Masters All Things Branches Shakes Over It Leafs Johnson Trunks

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”

“The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.”

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Book:The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

“[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.”

Source: The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley

“What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.”

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Author:Agnes Mary Clerke

“...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.”

Ifs Mind Kind Would Be Law Turns Natural Interesting Common Knowledge Accidents Scales Description Cosmic Interesting Things Monetary Commonality

Author:Jerry Fodor

“There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.”

“When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.”

Ifs Turns Natural Knowledge Study Creation Scientist Miracle Psychedelic Mystic Natural Science

Author:Albert Hofmann

“I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.”

Men Feels Sometimes Science Turns Felt Knowledge Findings Areas Experience Riches Certainty Renaissance Unexplored Absolute Certainty Knowledge And Experience Renaissance Man

Author:Polykarp Kusch

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