‘… you can not use your `prior knowledge (e.g. that targets tend to be smooth that Occams razor usually works etc.) to set P(f) without making additional assumptions about the applicability of that `knowledge. This is because that knowledge is ultimately based on only two things: your experiences since birth and your genomes experiences in [...]
‘I am the man I suffered I was there.’
‘The end of man is knowledge but there?s one thing he can?t know. He can?t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed all right but he can?t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn?t got [...]
‘You are challenged to avoid mediocrity acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity the achievements of the scientific present and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows In an acceptable time have I heard thee and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: … Isaiah 49:8.’
‘There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself for the finite individual through mere daily living … a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.’
‘When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it when you cannot express it in numbers your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge but you have scarcely in your thoughts [...]
‘How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!’
‘The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life and the fear of death and blind faith but through striving after rational knowledge.’
‘A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library where he can get it if he wants it.’
‘… knowledge emerges in (humans). Opposed to knowledge is the spirit. The spirit is formless and is incomprehensible to mundane thoughts…. Knowledge is active mischievous and intelligent. It changes constantly. Spirit on the other hand is the master of humankind. Its origin is in wu-chi…. It is never born and it never dies. The spirit [...]