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  • It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Lying Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Real Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.
    • 4 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Humility Quotes
  • Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Knowledge Quotes