The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. 606
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. 693
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad? 671
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. 732
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. 712
If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage. 2.18K
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. 661
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. 737
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer. 776
I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe. 644
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. 1.28K
