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knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
theory
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Herbert A. Simon
theory
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively. Bo Burnham
theory observation
Observation always involves theory. Edwin Powell Hubble
theory understood convinced
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. Chaim Weizmann
theory
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything. Asa Butterfield
theory
Everybody has a theory. Daniel Handler
theory precision unified
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Brian Greene
theory
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
theory therefore trivial
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Lee Smolin