The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Knowledge Quotes
There are times when ignorance is bliss indeed. (“The Pickwick Papers”)
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.
No regrets—you learn from everything all the time.
Science is an enterprise of human beings, so there are all sorts of jealousies and rivalries and unwillingness to admit mistakes. But the great advantage is that the culture of science is opposed to these frailties, and the collective enterprise of science undoes them. We give our highest rewards to those who disprove the contentions […]
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s eyes, because they know—or think they know—some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is […]
I reminded myself, ‘it’s common knowledge that life isn’t worth living, anyhow.’ And, on a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten — since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as […]
Those four years at Harvard were some of the most influential in terms of exposing me to many fields of knowledge and to people my own age who were at least as passionate about what they were doing as I was about what I was doing. Archaeology and anthropology were my favorite subjects. They helped […]
Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery.
