Knowledge Quotes

"The weakness in an argument is revealed through patient testing."

"I do not think I can learn much more by experimenting with machines."

"Many birds are flying in the air by instinct, not knowledge."

"Each generation carries within it the wisdom of all those who came before."

"The pursuit of knowledge is a sacred duty to those who seek truth."

"Every observation, no matter how small, contributes to the edifice of knowledge."

"A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal computing machine."

"Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity."

"Provided it is stipulated that digital computers cannot have much storage, the statement that 'digital computers can do whatever we require of them' is false."

"The reader must accept it as a fact that digital computers can be constructed, and also that they can be made to follow any definite process which could be carried out by an inspector."

"This gives us an objectively verifiable way of determining whether a machine can think."

"In mathematics we don't really understand things, we just get used to them."

"We need to distinguish between the machine in the physical sense and the machine in the abstract sense."

"Intelligence is sexy."

"Beauty fades, but intelligence is forever."

"The greatest gift is the gift of knowledge."

"When the bright sun strikes the water, the light is reflected in a thousand directions; so when great truths are proclaimed, they are reflected from mind to mind in endlessly varied forms."

"Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an equality of knowledge with the people of another, they will eventually be governed by them."

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

"The greatest power is not in what we know, but in what we are willing to learn."

"Take from my experiences my successes and my failures and learn from them."

"Simplicity and silence are the twin pillars of knowledge."

"Knowledge is not gained by saying, if you believe this, you do not believe that."

"The richest heritage we have is in our libraries."

"I am using the phrase 'the right to know' as I believe no one can make intelligent decisions about their world without understanding it."

"We live in an age of specialists, each isolated in his own cell of expertise."

"There is in every human being a deep-seated craving to understand the mystery of life."

"The basis for all true understanding and knowledge is the capacity to observe."

"Your assumptions about the material will guide what you see."

"Understanding requires us to set aside what we think we know."