Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market"

Arthur Hugh Clough, Poet

"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses"

Helge Ingstad, Explorer

"My head was always bubbling over with facts, and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school, and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits"

Eric Allin Cornell, Physicist

"Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I"

Harry Johnston, Explorer

"Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate"

Jeffrey Archer, Politician

"What you know not now, you will know hereafter"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

Joanna Southcott

"The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment"

Johannes Kepler, Scientist

"To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language, I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children"

Polykarp Kusch, Scientist

"I feel, sometimes, as the Renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn"

Polykarp Kusch, Scientist

"In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests"

Gerard Debreu, Mathematician

"All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas, good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant"

Jane Grey, Royalty

"The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything"

Prince Andrew, Royalty

"Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers, and that their own contribution is not so enormous"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"At the moment I am taking a very careful look at some of the work which we have done in the past"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

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