New Knowledge Quotes

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

I think people enjoy finding out something genuinely new.

We only get 60 years, if we're really lucky, as adults on earth, and why not try to wake up every day and learn something and talk to people?

I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.

I learn new things all the time.

Every day, I want to learn something new; I want to move up.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in that not only are the pathways of scientific thought determined by the presuppositions of the scientists but their goals are the testing and revision of old presuppositions and the creation of new.

The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Instead of being focused on teaching what we already know, we now have to be focused on creating new knowledge that is China-based, because it's absolutely clear that China is going to shift from a production economy to a knowledge economy.

While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you just go around to that many galleries, and if you stay open, you're going to see work with enough energy and surprise. I don't think I've ever gone to the galleries without coming home thinking, Gee, I now know something I didn't know this morning.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Creative work and critical thought, which produces new knowledge, can't be conditioned; indeed, conditioning prevents these things from ever happening.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.

A discovery is generally an unforeseen relation not included in theory.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.