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We can’t even begin to imagine what computation is until we understand what it means to compute.
From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Always be curious and never stop learning.
From The Third Door by Alex Banayan
He who knows the longitude can navigate the world.
From Longitude by Dava Sobel
Science is the ultimate form of empowerment.
From The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The more you rely on experts, the more you will suffer from their incompetence.
To understand religion, we must grasp the differences between them.
From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero
To know the world is to be knowledgeable; to know yourself is to be enlightened.
From The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The essence of computer science is the study of algorithms.
From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
From The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean
The successive development of scientific knowledge is not an incremental process but a series of revolutions.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
You can’t know what you don’t know.
From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Science is a way of thinking more than it is a body of knowledge.
From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
The act of foraging brings people together in a shared pursuit of knowledge and experience.
From The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America by Langdon Cook
Understanding is not a matter of knowledge but of being.
From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.
The more choices we have, the less we rely on those who know more than we do.
From The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
From The Information by James Gleick
Scientific revolutions are not the result of a gradual accumulation of knowledge.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
We are all trying to understand the world around us, and algorithms help us do that.
From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
Understanding is a process that never ends; it expands infinitely.
The beginning of infinity is the point at which we become aware of the infinite possibilities of knowledge.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
From 1984 by George Orwell
In the age of information, knowledge is both power and responsibility.
From Power and Prediction by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
It is the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most.
From The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
From The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
From The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The crowd can be a powerful source of knowledge and creativity.
From Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; to not know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
From The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Understanding codes is key to understanding history.
Understanding AI requires a multidisciplinary perspective.
From Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Knowledge is not a final product; it is a process.
The mind is the lens through which we perceive the world.
Fools are more likely to be right than the wise.
In finance, knowledge is power.
From The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
The knowledge of how to rebuild is essential for humanity's future.
From The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell
The more we understand evolution, the more we realize how interconnected everything is.
Scientists are not merely passive observers; they are active participants in the creation of knowledge.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
The most important skill of a historian is to be able to ask the right questions.
From Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The understanding can only think what it has already perceived through intuition.
Science is not a body of knowledge but a way of thinking.
Data is only as valuable as the insights it provides.
From The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Rational agents maximize the expected performance measure based on their knowledge.
From Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The scientist is not a man who learns facts but a man who learns how to think.
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
Knowledge is not just information; it is understanding.
From Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
To know is not enough; we must apply.
From The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
The goal of machine learning is to turn data into knowledge.
From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
The more one knows, the more one realizes one does not know.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
From Cosmos by Carl Sagan
I wanted to know how a woman who died in poverty became the most important tool in medicine.
The fool is the one who thinks he knows everything.
Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being smart.
From Principles by Ray Dalio
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Understanding AI is essential for navigating the complexities of the modern world.
From T-Minus AI by Michael Kanaan
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
You can’t really understand anything until you know the whole system.
Skepticism is the beginning of the quest for knowledge.
A spoonful of knowledge about the elements can lead to a lifetime of curiosity.
From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Understanding sound helps us understand our world better.
From The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by Trevor Cox
Axioms are not mere assumptions; they are necessary truths.
Curiosity is the key to unlocking new ideas.
The quest for knowledge is the driving force of human progress.
From The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
From Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin
Wisdom is the art of knowing what to ignore.
From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising
Knowledge advances by the follies of mankind.
The only way to understand the world is to build a model of it.
You cannot understand the universe without understanding the mind.
From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Data is not information, information is not knowledge.
From The Information by James Gleick
Understanding cancer requires a new way of thinking.
Knowledge is power.
The more we learn, the more we discover how little we know.
From Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To know ten thousand things, know one well.
Knowledge is the foundation upon which we can rebuild our world.
From The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell
The use of reason is to be distinguished from the use of the senses.
From The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by René Descartes
The quest for knowledge is the most important human endeavor.
From The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson
The majority of the universe is invisible.
The future of AI will depend on our understanding of intelligence itself.
From Genius Makers by Cade Metz
There is much more to the mind than we currently comprehend.
From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose
Knowledge can be obtained only by intellectual effort.
The greatest problem for mankind is not the problem of evil, but the problem of ignorance.
Knowledge is a light that illuminates the darkest corners of our ignorance.
From The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World by Edward Dolnick
The quest for understanding the elements has driven many to madness.
From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
To understand the world is to understand ourselves.
There is a certain pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge.
We live in an age of information overload, yet we often lack understanding.
From The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
The more models you have, the better your understanding.
From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
We must confront our own assumptions about knowledge.
From The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
Maps are not just tools for navigation; they are also instruments of understanding.
From The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
The quest for knowledge is a journey into the unknown.
From The Dream of Reason by Anthony Gottlieb
To be able to ask a question is the key to understanding.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
Depth of knowledge is useful, but breadth of knowledge is essential.
From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
To solve the longitude problem would be to grasp a piece of the world.
From Longitude by Dava Sobel
Our models of the world should reflect causal relationships.
From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
The world is complex, and our understanding of it must be as well.
The greatest problem of philosophy is that of the relation between knowledge and reality.
Science is not a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.
All human knowledge is based on the ideas of conjecture and refutation.
The mind is like a vast ocean, and its depths are unknown.