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In the present state of our knowledge it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is however sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it and an essential property of matter?

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin and I've spoken with athletes who for years afterward have been tormented by the knowledge that had they done something ever so slightly different they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature career and consequences of human values.

Most people who are selling their mineral rights this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying the landmen who are coming in do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women and for the healing of the nations.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

Growing up in Nashville especially in a music business family means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark astrology is dark and geometry is dark.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel full of the knowledge of God of examples of virtues and of correction of vices of the end of this life and of the life to come.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth so the soul of man dieth when it hath not the knowledge of God.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is or can be proven knowledge.

All along we find that social life - religion politics art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Like all science psychology is knowledge and like science again it is knowledge of a definite thing the mind.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge their experience their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.