#knowledge

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep. ↗

— Lois Capps

#cell #cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? ↗

— Robert Casey

#assume #dignity #human #human dignity #people

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

#books #confined #his #knowledge #need

But when I roamed New York City, knowing so much and capable of speaking so nicely, and yet so lonely, and often hungry and cold, I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered was a lifelong membership in a respected artificial extended family. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#knowledge #education

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#armenian #armenian genocide #community #ensure #event

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#classify #give #ignorance #knowledge #name

But when a faithful Muslim is alone by himself, he is not lonely. As a matter of fact being alone is prized by faithful Muslims. There is a Hadith from Imam Sajjad (A.S.) in which the Imam is quoted as saying: 'If all between the East and West were to die, I would not feel lonely as long as the Qur'an was with me. ↗

— DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI

#faith

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#disposed #exist #experts #favourably #feel

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#being #book #days #gain #hours

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#acknowledged #actual #congress #disability #disease