knowledge Quotes

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.