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Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
- Science
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Choruses from The Rock (1934), I
- Wisdom
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
- Wisdom
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Forgiveness
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4
- Clever Jabs
- Education
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter1930–2008The Homecoming (1965), act 2, sc. 1
- Comedy
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
MMMignon McLaughlin1913–1983The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981)
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Fooled by Randomness (2001)
- Facts
In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Anti-God
We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself.
H. G. Wells1866–1946World Brain (1938), Preface, p. xvi
- Government
Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.
Karl Popper1902–1994Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
For knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597), “De Hæresibus” [Of Heresies]
- Power