Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Knowledge is never too dear.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.