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  • I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

    Facts   Starting   Humans  
    Michael Polanyi, Amartya Sen (2009). “The Tacit Dimension”, p.4, University of Chicago Press
  • Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

    Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.113
  • The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an object of love. Before you know if you have red hair or brown, before you know if you are black or white, before you know of what religion you are a part, you have to know that you are loved

    Love Is   White   Hair  
  • Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  • As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

    Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.86, Random House
  • No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.

    Moving   Men   Essence  
  • The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

    Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin UK
  • When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

  • The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

  • The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

    Past   Bridges   Decision  
    Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.
  • Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

  • Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.70, Princeton University Press
  • But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

    Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”
  • Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

    Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.90, Hackett Publishing
  • I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in excavation is to uncover the mysteries of the past and add to the store of human knowledge. They lie. What they really want is a spectacular discovery, so they can get their names in the newspapers and inspire envy and hatred in the hearts of their rivals.

    Lying   Heart   Past  
  • Mechanical Notation ... I look upon it as one of the most important additions I have made to human knowledge. It has placed the construction of machinery in the rank of a demonstrative science. The day will arrive when no school of mechanical drawing will be thought complete without teaching it.

    Charles Babbage (1864). “Passages from the Life of a Philosopher”, p.452, London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
  • My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies, and I really wanted to at least capture the spirit of a Ph.D. student whose goal and aspiration is to increase the sum total of human knowledge. That is noble. That was really, really important, to capture the three-dimensionality of scientists. Scientists fall in love, scientists have the greatest sense of humor, scientists are passionate.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

    Men   Order   Effort  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.394, Penguin
  • They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

    "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.
  • Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

    "Computers let Roger Ebert be himself", www.cnn.com. April 17, 2011.
  • History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.

    Thinking   Views   Age  
  • Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

    Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”
  • Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.

    Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.480
  • Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

  • All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

    "Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason".
  • Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

    Parent   Doubt   Humans  
  • Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters.

    Reagan, Ronald (1988). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986”, p.490, Best Books on
  • The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

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