Quotes about Knowledge

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and Practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Drug knowledge originated mostly with males because they tend to be more venturesome-an outgrowth of male aggression. You've read your Orange Catholic Bible, thus you know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

America had once ruled the earth, he said. But it had never bothered to educate its people. So now it was a country of ignorant peasants, a noisy and stupid rabble.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

An old ass knows more than a young colt

The Great God Science. It has failed us, because it was never meant to be a god, but only a few true scientists understand that.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Why is it that some grown-ups just seem to go on getting dumber and dumber year by year instead of learning anything?