Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference. Paul Davies on knowledge
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Paul Davies on knowledge
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned. Jon Kyl on knowledge
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. Maria Mitchell on knowledge
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. Michael Gove on knowledge
My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.' Gina Carano on knowledge
Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. Ryszard Kapuscinski on knowledge
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. Townsend Harris on knowledge
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. Leland Stanford on knowledge
A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. B. H. Liddell Hart on knowledge
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. Auguste Comte on knowledge
It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. Michael Nesmith on knowledge
I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. Jennie Garth on knowledge
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next. Jean Piaget on knowledge
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. Jean Piaget on knowledge
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. Willie Mays on knowledge
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else. Felix Baumgartner on knowledge
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. Joseph Franklin Rutherford on knowledge
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. Christopher Dawson on knowledge
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. Jim Ryun on knowledge