“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”
— Samuel Smiles
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Where there is shouting, there is no
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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To those who have chosen the profession
“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
— Charles Babbage
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as
“Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.”
— David Amram
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The price one pays for pursuing any
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
— James A. Baldwin
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The knower and the known are one.
“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”
— Meister Eckhart
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The object of all the former voyages
“The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.”
— William Bligh
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The intellectual takes as a starting point
“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.”
— Daniel Bell
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Close contact between science and the practice
“Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.”
— Trofim Lysenko
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I have learned throughout my life as
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
— Igor Stravinsky
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As this body of knowledge has evolved,
“As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.”
— John Olver
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