Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"America is the best half-educated country in the world"

Nicholas M. Butler, Philosopher

"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more, or less and less"

Alvar Aalto, Architect

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing"

Robert Welch, Writer

"I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors!"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal"

William Allen White, Editor

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it, what does the formula teach me?"

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Theologian

"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit, and apply to all national languages"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization"

G. M. Trevelyan, Historian

"French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history, made by the natives themselves"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"Fermat said he had a proof"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

"It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us"

Kenneth L. Pike, Sociologist

"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today"

Andrew Wiles, Mathematician

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