Human Knowledge Quotes - Page 4

• I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

  Sting

  Pain, Knowledge, Thinking

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• There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Writing, Simple, Numbers

  Source: reason.com

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• Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Differences, Body

  Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.113

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• Knowledge is organized data. For it to be shelved as human knowledge it's got to be predictable, repeatable, all the basics of scientific validation have to be there.

  Greg Graffin

  Data, Validation, Basics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Thinking, Views, Age

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• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Decision

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

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• The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Lying, Answers

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• A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

  Tony Abbott

  Facts, Source, Humans

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• I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Book, Information, Way

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 21, 2014.

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• You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Stories, Common

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.86, Random House

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• When reflection is thereby demystified, I believe that the temptation to view human knowledge as different in kind from animal knowledge is undermined.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Reflection, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

  Steven Levy

  Google, Desire, Behaviour

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• One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Original Thought, Humans, Originals

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• To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

  Vera John-Steiner

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• There are still many large white spaces on the map of human knowledge. You can go discover them. So do it. Get out there and fill in the blank spaces. Every single moment is a possibility to go to these new places and explore them.

  Peter Thiel

  Single Mom, White, Space

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. June 15, 2012.

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• No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Moving, Men, Essence

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• My two older brothers are both molecular biologists and neuroscientists, and I feel like representing them accurately is never done in movies, and I really wanted to at least capture the spirit of a Ph.D. student whose goal and aspiration is to increase the sum total of human knowledge. That is noble. That was really, really important, to capture the three-dimensionality of scientists. Scientists fall in love, scientists have the greatest sense of humor, scientists are passionate.

  Mike Cahill

  Falling In Love, Brother, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.

  Anthony de Mello

  Knowledge Of God, Humans, Knows

  Anthony De Mello (1999). “Anthony De Mello: Writings”

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• One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

  Michel Foucault

  Men, Madness, Problem

  Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.421, Routledge

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• The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

  Stuart Sherman

  Teacher, Add, Purpose

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• Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that it must be thrown overboard. The fact that such an extraordinary opinion should be expressed in responsible scientific quarters is widely taken to be significant of the all-round unreliability of human knowledge. This indeed is a very serious situation.

  Max Planck

  Taken, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Effort, Finals, Limits

  1941 The Nature and Destiny of Man, vol.1.

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• And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Law, Design, Doubt

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.383, CUP Archive

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• Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Knowledge, Sun, Humans

  Sri Aurobindo (1995). “Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol”, p.234, Lotus Press

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