The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.