Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

So few grow, because so few study.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

I'm always learning new things.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

So with each advance in understanding come new questions. So we need to be very humble. We shouldn’t have hubris and think that we can understand everything. But history tells us that there is good reason to believe that we will continue making fantastic progress in the years ahead.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.