Quote Genre: Knowledge

David Wolpert – ‘… you can not use your `pr…

‘… 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 … Continue reading →

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Walt Whitman – ‘I am the man I suffered I wa…

‘I am the man I suffered I was there.’

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Robert Penn Warren – ‘The end of man is knowledge …

‘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 … Continue reading →

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John H. Vandenberg – ‘You are challenged to avoid …

‘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 … Continue reading →

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Laurens Van der Post – ‘There is a way in which the …

‘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.’

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William Thomson – ‘When you can measure what yo…

‘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 … Continue reading →

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Edwin Way Teale – ‘How sad would be November if…

‘How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!’

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Albert Einstein – ‘The further the spiritual ev…

‘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 … Continue reading →

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – ‘A man should keep his little…

‘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 … Continue reading →

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- ‘… knowledge emerges in (hu…

‘… 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. … Continue reading →

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