Knowledge Discovery Quotes

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Our perceptions are limited. Our brains distort the truth. So do we ever know what is real? That is the mission of science. To probe deep into the massive puzzle box of nature to find its ultimate truths.

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.