With the tools and the knowledge, I could turn a developing snail's egg into an elephant. It is not so much a matter of chemicals because snails and elephants do not differ that much; it is a matter of timing the action of genes. Barbara McClintock
With the tools and the knowledge, I could turn a developing snail's egg into an elephant. It is not so much a matter of chemicals because snails and elephants do not differ that much; it is a matter of timing the action of genes.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. Barbara McClintock
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
My work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
My work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it. George Santayana
The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
It was above all in the period after the devastating incursions of the Goths that all branches of knowledge which previously had flourished gloriously and been practiced in the proper manner, began to deteriorate. Andreas Vesalius
It was above all in the period after the devastating incursions of the Goths that all branches of knowledge which previously had flourished gloriously and been practiced in the proper manner, began to deteriorate.
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge. Alfred Wegener
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. Alfred Nobel
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Blalock
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. Laurence Olivier
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.” George Washington
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.