#knowledge

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#become #integral #iranian #knowledge #now

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it? ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#human power #knowledge #power #synonymous

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#caused #desire #excessive #fall #knowledge

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#any #conscious #details #developments #grasp

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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