“Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.”
— William Moulton Marston
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding
“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”
— Milton Friedman
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I am not a member of any
“I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.”
— Judy Holliday
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It is not knowledge, but the act
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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But the scientific importance of a change
“But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.”
— Talcott Parsons
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The study and knowledge of the universe
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As a physicist, I can state that
“As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.”
— David Douglass
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to
“Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.”
— Nathan Deal
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied
“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.”
— Henri Poincare
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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on
“Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.”
— David Amram
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world
“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”
— Roland Barthes
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