"What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts."

-- Friedrich von Logau

#Knowing Quotes #Use Quotes

“Vanity is as old as the mammoth.”
“Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it's not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.”
“There are no limits to what science can explore. The man of the future will be dedicated to individualism. To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical phenomena, to be able to uncover what is real and definitive, was my life's great dream.”

Source : "The Solvay Councils and the Birth of Modern Physics" by Pierre Marage, Grégoire Wallenborn, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999.
“What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.”
“Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.”

Source : Leonard Maltin (1994). “Leonard Maltin's movie and video guide”, N A L Trade
“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.7.
“I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.”
“And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

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