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  • Trofim Lysenko on knowledge

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    “Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.” -Trofim Lysenko

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  • Michael Polanyi on knowledge

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    “I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.” -Michael Polanyi

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  • Frank Carlucci on knowledge

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    “My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.” -Frank Carlucci

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  • Simon Greenleaf on knowledge

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    “The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact – the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.” -Simon Greenleaf

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  • Ike Skelton on knowledge

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    “The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.” -Ike Skelton

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  • Abdullah Ibrahim on knowledge

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    “When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.” -Abdullah Ibrahim

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  • Bill Veeck on knowledge

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    “I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” -Bill Veeck

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  • Amy Waldman on knowledge

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    “Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.” -Amy Waldman

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  • Marvin Minsky on knowledge

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    “I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.” -Marvin Minsky

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  • Wilhelm Dilthey on knowledge

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    “To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one’s own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.” -Wilhelm Dilthey

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  • James Meade on knowledge

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    “The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.” -James Meade

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  • Luc Montagnier on knowledge

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    “One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that’s obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.” -Luc Montagnier

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  • Abbott L. Lowell on knowledge

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    “Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.” -Abbott L. Lowell

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  • Ralph Cudworth on knowledge

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    “Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.” -Ralph Cudworth

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  • Wangari Maathai on knowledge

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    “You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” -Wangari Maathai

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  • Miroslav Vitous on knowledge

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    “They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.” -Miroslav Vitous

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  • Alan Dundes on knowledge

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    “I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.” -Alan Dundes

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  • Wilhelm Reich on knowledge

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    “Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.” -Wilhelm Reich

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  • Origen on knowledge

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    “For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.” -Origen

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  • Anne Sullivan Macy on knowledge

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    “No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.” -Anne Sullivan Macy

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  • Doris Day on knowledge

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    “The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.” -Doris Day

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  • Howard Gardner on knowledge

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    “A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It’s often called the culture of the organization.” -Howard Gardner

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  • Nathan Deal on knowledge

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    “Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.” -Nathan Deal

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  • David Amram on knowledge

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    “Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.” -David Amram

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  • Yoshihiko Noda on knowledge

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    “I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.” -Yoshihiko Noda

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