Sam Cooke Quotes

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

We are in a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Americans today don’t know history—even the smart ones who went to Ivy League schools.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

We have politicians running for office—for school boards—in parts of the country who are denying the fundamental principle of biology. They are trying to equate the fact that Evolution is a theory with the idea that Evolution might not be true…. The teaching of Evolution should not be a political issue…. Evolution was discovered, not invented.

Certainly, the illiterates of past centuries, then an enormous majority of mankind, knew little of the history of their respective countries and of their civilization. In the minds of modern illiterates, however, who know how to read and write and even teach in schools and at universities, history is present but blurred, in a state of strange confusion; Molière becomes a contemporary of Napoleon, Voltaire, a contemporary of Lenin.

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

How little we know of what there is to know.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?