Knowledge Quotes

"The more you know, the more questions you have."

"The key to understanding is to remain deeply engaged with your material."

"Every question answered opens the door to ten new questions."

"When we think we have got the problem settled, we are pretty sure to discover something which has escaped our attention."

"We were determined to know something about the bird before we would try to use our wings."

"We understood then that the real difficulty lay elsewhere."

"To really understand something, you must be willing to fail at it repeatedly."

"The mind is the most beautiful organ a woman possesses."

"I believe that curiosity is the engine of progress."

"A brilliant mind is a woman's best decoration."

"Heredity is not mysterious; it follows laws as precise as the stars."

"The laws governing inheritance are no more mysterious than gravity."

"In the law of inheritance lies the answer to the question of similarity and difference."

"To understand the parent is to predict the child; to understand the child is to know the parent."

"To understand one pea plant is to glimpse the logic of all living things."

"It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence."

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

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

"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."

"The digital computer is a universal machine in the sense that it can be adapted to do the work of any other machine."

"What is the most general kind of machine one can construct?"

"We do not know what components are required for thinking until we have tried to build a thinking machine."

"Computable numbers are the numbers which can be computed by finite means."

"We should ask not 'Can machines think?' but rather 'What would constitute thinking in a machine?'"

"What is the nature of information if a machine can process it?"

"The advantage of the digital machine is not speed but universality."

"The proper way to test machine intelligence is through interactive dialogue."

"To understand thinking, we must first understand what it means to think."

"The power of computation lies in its generality and universality."

"What we call intelligence may simply be complex information processing."