Demonstrable Knowledge Quotes

#1. The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

Karl Popper

#2. The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.

Anonymous

#3. It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

Lake Bell

#4. The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

Zubin Mehta

#5. Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ...

Winifred Holtby

#6. But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

Tom Selleck

#7. Though she remained earthbound, the freedom in her soul made her fly.

J.R. Ward

#8. Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.

Zubin Mehta

#9. Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Enid Nemy

#10. Snagged a Tootsie Pop - then saw that it was orange, and traded that for a grape one.

J.R. Ward

#11. This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Edouard Manet

#12. When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.

Emile Chartier

#13. I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.

Mark Bradford

#14. This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

Gary Johnson