knowledge Quotes

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

A statement is persuasive and credible either because it is directly self-evident or because it appears to be proved from other statements that are so.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.