knowledge Quotes

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.

Education is neither eastern nor western.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things.

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.