“The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.”
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“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”
“I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.”
“You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.”
“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.”
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
“So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.”
“The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.”
“The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.”
“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”
“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
“No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.”
“Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.”
“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.”
“With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.”
“But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.”
“From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.”
“It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.”
“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”
“The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.”
“The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.”