#encyclopedia

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#had #him #i #open #saw

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#encyclopedia #art

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. ↗

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#life

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#encyclopedia #free #general #hard #hate

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#beer #encyclopedia #every #free #free speech

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#create #distribute #doing #encyclopedia #every

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#each #electronic #encyclopedia #everything #given

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#certitude #encyclopedia #exclusively #only #own

In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #respect

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#back #black #contribution #could #created