Quotes about Knowledge
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage. It is not so clear that this is still the case: our scientific discoveries may well destroy us all, and even if they don't, a complete unified theory may not make much difference to our chances of survival.
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it`s possible in practice; we`re trying to work out if it`s possible in principle!"