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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an objective ontological reality.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

I do believe states rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I am professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men is candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.