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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.