“I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.” WantWritingLongUsedKnowledgeScriptsCooperationPassivePipePlumbing Book:Collected Poems: 1950-2012 Source: Collected Poems: 1950-2012
“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.” WayHumansKindMayMeanFactsUseUsedPoetryKnowledgeGenerationsPoetCivilizationResourcesInventionMonumentUsefulnessHuman ResourcesScrapPrecious Time Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.” UsedGrowsKnowledgeIncreaseContraryCommodityDiffusionDispersion Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.” WorldRememberUsedPerfectEducationConsciousnessKnowledgeStudentsBuildingTrustBecomingTomorrowEducationalVehicleGoodwillEducation And KnowledgePertinentBuilding TrustWorld Is Yours Author:Yuri Kochiyama
“Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.” MindWisdomUsedProcessDecisionKnowledgeLearningSticksActiveCoaching Book:How to Stop Worrying and Start Living Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.” PeopleIfsMenWarStatesHelpingScienceUsedForceSpaceUnitedKnowledgeTechnologyUnited StatesRightsProgressSeaPositionDependsOceanConscienceTheaterIllNuclearPresidentialSailScience And TechnologyNew KnowledgeOcean SeaKnowledge GainedSpace Science Author:John F. Kennedy
“In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they must be apprehended and analysed according to some Conceptions which, applied for this purpose, give distinct and definite results, such as can be steadily taken hold of and reasoned from.” GivingMayReasonFactsScienceUsedPurposeOrderResultsKnowledgeTakenCapableExperimentsObservationConceptionDefinite Book:Novum Organon Renovatum Source: Novum Organon Renovatum
“I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising the mind and penetrating further and further. Best of all, mine has been a life of loving and being loved. What a tragedy that all this will disappear with the used-up body!” MindHas BeensBodyScienceUsedWealthKnowledgeMinesReadyExerciseTragedyInstrumentsDisappearEnjoyedSpheresBiographiesBeing LovedWealth Of Knowledge Author:Richard Goldschmidt
“'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.” WayShouldMindPersonsDifferentUsePainMovingUsedNamesMemoriesKnowledgeImagineWheelsDifferent ThingsUsualMechanismNeverthelessSymptomsFitting Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein