| 单词 | knowledge |
| 例句 | They thought they were using their knowledge to cure patients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The next morning, at school, everything seemed back to normal, but she knew something had changed, and she held this knowledge inside her like a splinter, something she was careful not to touch. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling—the reminder of intimacy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z People from other countries could come to learn how to speak English and get the knowledge they needed to manage their businesses. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge that Snape really wanted the Dark Arts job, and he had now failed to get it for the fourth year running. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z That he can tell what these soldiers are like merely by looking at their shoes tells me even more about his all-powerful knowledge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was then given a battery of increasingly difficult aptitude tests intended to measure my knowledge and abilities in every area that might conceivably be of use to my new employer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was a witch buried at the edge of the graveyard, it was common knowledge. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It is the knowledge or the conviction that if only we wished to understand them we could do so at any time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was preoccupied by this thought, though I was also comforted by the knowledge that other mothers and children had successfully done this before. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Something in Alpert was fulfilled in knowing that I would thereafter buy a television or a car or rent a hotel room in New York armed with the knowledge he had given me. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To escape the curse of knowledge, we have to go beyond our own powers of divination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This means that what is probable changes over time; but Locke never nerved himself up to take the further step of saying that knowledge itself changes over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The knowledge of that made the crowd all the more excited. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Every success, every achievement, every victory, every scientific discovery, all knowledge, all wisdom, all happiness, all virtue, are held to issue directly from his leadership and inspiration. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But even with the knowledge of the special care those ladies took with the flowers, I could tell these white roses were not grown in one of their own gardens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We should end by acknowledging that we have the scientific knowledge we have against all the odds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He would be his own secretary of state and trust his son’s quite impressive knowledge of European affairs more than official reports. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This knowledge goes from my spine down my shoulders and through my fingertips. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Riots have almost always been the result of poor prison administration or operation, not inmate knowledge of our top secret aikido grips. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There were not any decent Experts until the removal of the Epsilon an entire unit ago. Let us hope these have impeccable knowledge and compliance.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But their knowledge peaked at seventeen, when they ventured out of their parents’ homes and discovered that America had guns and cousins, too. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It’s public knowledge. The government has confirmed it.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He was the one who had the strength, agility, and knowledge to get them safe passage out of town. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “However, we continue to hear truly inspirational stories of wizards and witches risking their own safety to protect Muggle friends and neighbors, often without the Muggles’ knowledge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z What matters for present purposes is Montaigne’s rejection not of the practical knowledge, of wine-making and bread-baking, of his day, but of the learned knowledge, of medicine, geography, astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So your liver cells have some unemployed knowledge about how to make your bone cells, and vice versa. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z About June, the unspoken knowledge that she only lives here to watch out for him, the quiet sense of guilt he carries when he can’t tear himself away. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “What would become of me without the knowledge that I have you, come what may.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z ‘Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge,’ said Gandalf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Brynhild goes with him to the Giukungs, where Sigurd takes his own shape again, but without Brynhild’s knowledge. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All at once the gaps in her knowledge seemed too great, and a cloud of panic engulfed her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Later scientific revolutions have transformed our knowledge, but they have not melted down and recast our idea of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge, in combination with chunking and functional fixity, helps make sense of the paradox that classic style is difficult to master. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Since longitude was the missing piece of knowledge for oceanic navigators, all the early modern studies of the magnet were alert to the possibility that they might be able to fill this gap. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And before long, the location of the tomb will be common knowledge.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It’s practical in nature: that is, it’s not knowledge for its own sake. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My knowledge of Africa consisted of what I had seen in the National Geographic magazines my mother subscribed to for our family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge, more than a legend. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Children’s knowledge of how to use a tool could be a result of their experience with the tool; alternatively, it could be a result of their perceiving the tool’s affordances from shape and manipulability cues. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It helped to break down global regionalism, created a more seamless global commercial network, and made it simple and almost free to move digitized labor—service jobs and knowledge work—to lower-cost countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Eventually, with the concept of a tacit reserve, a principle from moral philosophy is introduced directly into epistemology, establishing a limit to knowledge claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The team zipped on at rocket-paced speed, feeding off one another’s knowledge and skill. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He gave the impression that he understood much and spoke out of a knowledge far deeper than appeared on the surface of his words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he returned home to Louisiana, he applied his knowledge of engineering to refining sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z This was the kind of knowledge we understood, the kind of code that was so deeply fundamental it never had to be fully articulated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Like Einstein had said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If I thought that the Count’s power over her would die away equally with her power of knowledge it would be a happy thought; but I am afraid that it may not be so. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Lawrence expected his cyclotron operators to carry their knowledge out into the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Well,” Ube said, his face reverting to its usual lightness, “if it’s knowledge y’all want, then you came to the right place.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Displaying classical knowledge was a way of demonstrating education and sophistication—it was, if you like, an ethos appeal in itself. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Even longer to acquire the knowledge to understand what I saw. I had help from one of the GPs, actually. A sympathizer.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The feelings were strong enough to destroy one human boy, but he fought through them, concentrating on the knowledge of himself and his task. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A space center that housed mankind's most advanced knowledge of rocketry yet had still failed to execute today's launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge was born of vast experience, the natural cunning of a survivor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z In the meantime, each day increased her knowledge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Lilya’s story is told in hindsight—she didn’t live long enough to be able to reflect on her youth, and much of our knowledge of her thoughts is filtered through the memories of her friends. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I didn't like the feeling I had talking to them, that everything was a little bit my responsibility, or that I had some special knowledge about what was going on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Is there some knowledge I’m desperate to impart? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The knowledge releases me, finally, from the fear that has consumed me for days. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I wondered if I would grow up too fast, I yearned for knowledge and understanding and yet I wondered if it would make me lose my dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, they say that there are countless saints who have nothing to do with church and almost no knowledge of God. But they say God walks with those people without them ever knowing it.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But the microscope brought into vision a world previously unknown; it was hard to establish how the new information it produced related to established knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He believed in equal rights, in knowledge, in hooks; he taught me about people like Paul Robeson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Joe Louis. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The undercurrent of every conversation is the knowledge we’ll be competing against each other. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of us lack expert knowledge of the flaking properties of flint and basalt and the fine motor skills needed to work them precisely. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This knowledge might have made me sympathetic to my father, but it didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And she was consoled by her new knowledge. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Both telescope and microscope produced new knowledge, but in the seventeenth century only the telescope directly endangered the existing order. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like Osborne, Lawes believed that increasing public knowledge of prisons could only be good. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They seem to be a matter of perspective: the more remote or alien the period, the more clear-cut the period style—and the more limited our knowledge and understanding. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He's never in a hurry to dismiss his students; he always wants to impart one more bit of knowledge before he sends them into the world. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z You get that one handwritten line plus the knowledge, inside of you, that you hold the record. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lawrence machines went, this one was a fiasco, not even yielding substantial or unique knowledge to advance the science of accelerator design. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect—the knowledge of the brain? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I ask Kelton, hoping that his extensive knowledge of useless military factoids will come in handy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She expected the dragon wouldn’t return during the day, and this knowledge turned off whatever inside her had been keeping her awake. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Despite everything—her cramping belly, the tightness of her bindings, and the heavy knowledge she carried inside her—Jinny did smile then. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Luke wanted Toby to live in the shame, the knowledge that he’d messed up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He had told me once that “all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Garzoni’s and della Porta’s facts are based not on a collective knowledge, on a shared understanding, but on direct, personal experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Now, Herbert,” said I, “with reference to gaining some knowledge of his history. There is but one way that I know of. I must ask him point blank.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “To the best of my knowledge, a scythe has never taken on two apprentices and set them in competition for the ring,” she continued. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If one of us had made the fact of us common knowledge, we would have become something to be discussed and decided upon. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This was doubly puzzling, as I did not think he read Arabic; nor, to my knowledge, did he have borrowing privileges at the Williams College Library. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But Kim, like others with firsthand knowledge of the camps, concluded after meeting Shin that his story was as solid as it was extraordinary. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was proud, haughty, impatient with less brilliant minds, grasping in its search for knowledge the way a conqueror grasps for power. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z As for the two roads that passed through Stromford, all I knew was that they led to the rest of England, of which I had no knowledge. our priest called it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But these did not compensate for the pain in his knowledge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In her autobiography, Elizabeth described Bayard as “a tall, fully developed man, remarkably fine looking, with cultivated literary taste and a profound knowledge of human nature.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z So much knowledge was hidden in that tiny world! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The FBI had begun laying the groundwork for the case in the late 1940s, interrogating Langley employees about their knowledge of Perl and his possible conspirators. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Hamilton’s last days contained several other incidents of equivalent poignancy, though they were only recognizable when viewed through the knowledge of the looming duel. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For the time being, the knowledge helped keep the Irwin barn solvent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Mastery of the Reynolds number, and using that knowledge to build wind tunnels that successfully simulated real-world conditions, was the key to the NACAs success. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In these rooms, she played the part her clients wanted to see—the powerful Grisha, serene in her knowledge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the absence of skill or knowledge, I must have scribbled down whatever occurred to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So far, we don’t seem to have been really shocked by anything among the items of new knowledge. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To the best of my knowledge Charley had never seen a bear, and in his whole history had showed great tolerance for every living thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had no knowledge that he had ever existed, no evidence that he was ever a part of our lives, it might have been bearable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z But then the fatal unreasoning knowledge came to him again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Because the two post- Games interviews with Caesar Flickerman were shot in President Snow’s personal quarters. Plutarch thinks Peeta may be of some use as a guide in a location we have little knowledge of.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Rarely has a state so avidly supported the pursuit of knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Man tries to know and his knowledge will kill us all. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to assume that Wittgenstein’s point here is a relativist one: we say their knowledge is inferior to ours; but they say the same about us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Was it producing indisputable knowledge that could not be contested? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hindsight permits us to listen to the debate of 1790 with knowledge that none of the participants possessed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Each time he woke, he remembered the loss of Hazel and suffered once more the knowledge that had pierced him as the shadowy, limping rabbit disappeared in the first light of morning on the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They plot how they will try again, using knowledge gained from previous attempts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It took Úrsula several months to find out what was already public knowledge because people hid it from her so as not to increase her suffering. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and thought about Mentor, about his knowledge, about what it would feel like to be Mentor. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For Pomp, who begs tales of horror and enchantment, Olakunde recounted tales of the red monkey who with withered lips enounced sacred knowledge to the oracles of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z If there was more to having a home than Crane-man and the bridge, Tree-ear had neither knowledge nor need of it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z My thoughts wandered as my fingers worked their way through the fleece with a knowledge that came from having done this task for many years. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He could see a run-down building and have not only the vision to see what it might become, but also the practical knowledge of what it would cost and how long it would take. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And this knowledge was what the men had been searching for...So it was dangerous, too. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had personal knowledge of their suffering, having lived and studied in Washington, D.C. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They scared people with their efficiency and their knowledge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some kind of knowledge lurched inside him even before his eyes adjusted to the dark interior. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A sharp pain rose in Harry’s throat at this sight: For a moment, the strange music and the knowledge that Dumbledore’s body was so close seemed to take all warmth from the day. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But this couldn’t last—there was no way to stop other people copying the instrument and no way to prevent those who knew how to use it passing on their knowledge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And whether the knowledge was being sucked into the kernel in Luna’s brain, or whether it was flying away entirely, Xan did not know. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z "I better get to the press room. Any parting knowledge before I go?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer, I knew, lay in the discovery of the poison vial The knowledge of it put my father in danger. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Well, if I destroy this so-called knowledge about squirrels, no one will ever know it existed.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Memory swept over him, and with it a chilling knowledge of the thing in store for him today. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z To their colleagues, Rutherford and Lawrence would be known as “the two Ernests,” and their work would bookend an epochal quest for knowledge of the natural world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first possibility is that he worked in complete isolation, without knowledge of anything that had gone before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Have a small set of trained knowledge and constantly need to have things explained again and their communications verified. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In a field report, an agent from the bureau observed, “It is a matter of common knowledge that Rose...was of a violent and jealous disposition.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Barring a complete computer failure or other critical event, Vogel's vast knowledge of astrodynamics would never come into play. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell her that there is important information in the Erudite compound, in addition to all the knowledge they possess, that especially needs to be recovered. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Into his mind came the delayed knowledge: You are the left of the Union. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It gazed at him from a vast distance, full of deep knowledge he couldn’t begin to understand. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z For the best part of half a century, the author of the Arte was held to be a senior courtier and the work’s contents the fruit of deep privileged knowledge. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Skipper was a skillful coach, but was rarely present to impart his knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z According to present knowledge, the occurrence of an entire extra body chromosome is usually lethal, preventing survival of the embryo. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All of that knowledge is acquired by observation and by trial and error. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He makes the acquisition of knowledge feel like a secret, beautiful thing, and an ancient thing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If I didn’t know better—if the gold-flecked eyes didn’t brim with many millennia’s worth of knowledge—I’d swear he was just one of the chess-playing old heads at my apartment complex in Chicago. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then she intoned, as if she alone possessed this knowledge: “There is an American flag on the moon!” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Today is truly a momentous day,” the captain tells us, “for we shall test the diving bell and see if Caden’s knowledge of deep-sea exploration rings true.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Pauling had cracked the a-helix by ruthlessly following up his knowledge that the peptide bond was flat. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I knew to do that I’d have to prepare myself in some way, get some skills of some kind or special knowledge about something. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I lacked even a basic knowledge of grammar, though I was learning, beginning with nouns and moving on to prepositions and gerunds. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Louis never minded if his scientific staff had higher degrees or not: The important thing, as far as he was concerned, was that they had knowledge and were hardworking and dedicated. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I was terrified, of course, but I knew there was something inside of me that wanted to give this knowledge to people, and I really believed I could do that,” he recalls. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He insists that knowledge comes not from books only, but from the study of things; yet the simple truth is that the ocean of books is as important to his researches as are the oceans. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One evening he came home from his training weighted with new knowledge. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z With the memory of her own birth pangs still lingering, she had knowledge now of what her mother had suffered when she, Katie, was born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows it, and the knowledge gives him more reality than most people own: a solidness of being, a substantiality, a human grandeur. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Herbie punched open his traps, wet his buttons, spread his powder, and snuggled down comfortably into his rancid sleeping bag, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow morning his ants would be extinct. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These men had little formal education, but a great knowledge of the hardships of the world. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While their parents were at work, the kids were at school, learning the rules of the new culture, and sometimes using this new knowledge against their parents. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They have had hardly any training, and are sent into the field with only a theoretical knowledge. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As I grew confident with the system, I began to make my own small improvements in it—without the doctor's knowledge, of course. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The court had “knowledge of the world” now: it had the fruits of achievement, civilization, savoir-vivre, gossip, fashion, malice, and the broad mind of scandal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were not here to contribute their knowledge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Matilda took all this in and stored the knowledge away carefully in her mind. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes would not have said that we derive our knowledge of the kings of France from authority; he would have said we derive it immediately from testimony and, ultimately, from sense experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Chapter 1, like Chapter 3, had not actually told him anything that he did not know; it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge is far more than a curiosity in economic theory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “In other words, you have no firsthand knowledge of its content—is that correct, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But working against this fear was their longing and need to find more does and the knowledge that there were plenty of does in Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this new sort of knowledge that Sprat had in mind when he defended the Royal Society from its critics, insisting that the starting point of the new knowledge, experimental evidence, was extremely reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What was remarkable about the knowledge produced by the voyages of discovery was not just that it was indisputably new, nor that it was public. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It had a record of practically every human interaction since the moment it became aware—but unlike in mortal days, that knowledge was never abused. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If there were any sure and firm knowledge for him, it would have to come from himself. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a familiarity in their movements that made me wonder if Sumac had visited the Paqo before, without my knowledge. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z In his mid-thirties, he still looked like a coarse peasant, although it had become more a matter of style since success and his knowledge of the world had softened his roughness and refined his ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice—that is, evidence of actual knowledge on the part of the publisher that a statement is false. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He sprawled languidly in the Warlord’s chair, tilting it and resting his feet on the map-strewn camp table, happy in the knowledge that his destiny was being fulfilled. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Buddy's father was a teacher, and I think Buddy could have been a teacher as well, he was always trying to explain things to me and introduce me to new knowledge. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The knowledge that they might never see each other again, that some of them—maybe all of them—might not survive this night hung heavy in the air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For knowledge of substance Newton substituted conceptual models that worked reliably and accurately. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lyddie kept the knowledge of the night cough tight inside herself, but the fear grew like a tumor. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Even today there are scientists opposed to the popularization of science: the sacred knowledge is to be kept within the cult, unsullied by public understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as if I’d rammed him with a car, I was consumed by the knowledge that a stranger was lying in a hospital bed because of me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The sword shone with the knowledge that dawn was a small beginning compared to the ending of a season: the ending of a year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was as though he had learned of my experience with Bledsoe's letters and was trying to use that knowledge to destroy not only me but the whole Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The whipping’s not common knowledge, so I tell them I slipped on the ice and cut it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He had been dead to her, for so long that she was almost frightened by the knowledge that he lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With every increase in his knowledge came a gain in strength. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d always believed his childhood was sterile, but the knowledge Macon and Ruth had given him wrapped his memory of it in septic sheets, heavy with the odor of illness, misery, and unforgiving hearts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The Moras knew many people, almost all of them interested in such matters, who gradually began to attend the Friday meetings, to which they brought their knowledge and their magnetic fluids. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kunthi said it, and in her eyes lay the knowledge of her own children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He combined practical and theoretical knowledge, as Hooke had in watchmaking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We have knowledge and experience to pool to do for ourselves! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And his knowledge accumulated slowly, a reference heard in the street, the gibing talk in the pool hall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Children mostly outgrow the inability to separate their own knowledge from someone else’s, but not entirely. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering—the sources of wealth in our day. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Especially the library. Knowledge is powerful, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden. Today, knowledge is for everyone.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “All knowledge is good knowledge. See you tomorrow!” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The more important thing for me to do is to use my knowledge of chaos, of attacks, to keep Nita and her friends from stealing the death serum. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z "How easy it is to snipe after the fact, to apply the knowledge we have now to the events of 1993," he wrote. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps Katherine, with some intuition of her fathers vision, drew strength from the knowledge that her husband’s premature death was part of a way of things, however painful. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Without any knowledge of the probability of there being various amounts of money in the envelopes, there is no way out of this impasse. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can imagine creatures evolving into glimmerings of knowledge on innumerable worlds, every one of them assuming at first their puny planet and paltry few suns to be all that is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a brother with a knowledge of demolition; he was asked to wire my car to explode when I turned the ignition key. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But science as a system of knowledge is more than a social construct because it is successful, because it fits with reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And, at present, that seemed to be the only knowledge that mattered. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “You said you were from Terrasen; did you ever visit the Great Library of Orynth? They say it’s twice the size of this—and that it used to hold all the knowledge of the world.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Final Trial scores are common knowledge, but the actual Trial documents are never revealed—not even to criminal investigators. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z All three of them bonded by the certain, separate knowledge that they had loved a man to death. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Creatures sometimes had to die to advance knowledge; they also had to die to advance Thanksgiving. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Mrs. Fairfax may indeed have suspected something, but she could have gained no precise knowledge as to facts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Now she was acting like an in-law, like an aunt, dabbling at helping Ruth and the girls, but having no interest in or knowledge of decent housekeeping, she got in the way. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The victor tributes from 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11 had varying degrees of knowledge about it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Another, who wore an elaborate lace collar and cuffs, looked overdressed even to Amari, who had no knowledge of the fashion of rich white youth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered, as I had so many times, if it would’ve been easier to lose my parents when I was still a baby, with no knowledge of them at all. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The knowledge or conviction about the party for Doc was no sudden thing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought it might be the way you proved your knowledge of the material and moved to a more advanced class,” I said innocently. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z With time would come the knowledge that intimacy must finally pass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been compiling it without my knowledge for the last year or so we were together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Will had no idea of the taboo in Lyra’s world preventing one person from touching another’s dæmon, and if he hadn’t touched Pantalaimon before, it was politeness that had held him back and not knowledge. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Dr. Bulkeley says that Connecticut has misinterpreted the charter. His knowledge of the law is so wide. He says that justice is not always served by our courts and — ” “Bah!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The truth is Alaska is for real, and with a lack of knowledge, of understanding, this reality comes with sometimes great and sometimes lethal danger. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Priority disputes are an infallible indicator that knowledge has become public, progressive and discovery oriented. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "Not now, I'm a patient. But I have a certain knowledge." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Clavius, we test our knowledge by doing things with it, which is the fundamental difference between our knowledge and most of the sciences of Montaigne’s day. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hence historians often assume that knowledge of metallurgy reached sub-Saharan Africa from the north. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “If the dragon girl pays a small price, the magician girl can get knowledge vital to her quest.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Horatio grew mortified to learn that he had been followed without his knowledge and by such a knave. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z This knowledge must have been simmering under the surface of my thoughts. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Freedom means very little if there is no knowledge to go with it.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an uncanny knowledge of wildlife and was not afraid of dogs or cats or beetles or moths, or of foods like scrod or tripe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The best knowledge of the past three millennia. Anything you want to study, anything you want to be, my dear.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The Field Notes are a compilation of the reports of seasoned observers who have spent many years afield in their particular areas and have unparalleled knowledge of the normal bird life of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Was this what strengthened these New Englanders to endure the winter, the knowledge that summer’s return would be all the richer for the waiting? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge buzzed through my days and made me jump unexpectedly like a jack-in-the-box. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Let us so live in this trying time that when it is all over we islanders can look one another in the eye with the knowledge that we have behaved honorably and fairly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If so, its people had taken that knowledge with them when they fled, along with all they owned, down to the candles in the sept. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z While the Islamic world was spreading and absorbing new knowledge, enjoying the taste of sugar, Europe had gone the opposite way: isolation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He knew it and they knew it, and he could see the knowledge in their faces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mother said it was the height of rudeness for a public servant with privileged knowledge to pry, and for once I had to agree with her. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z My hand hovers, but no truth comes, only the knowledge that maybe this is my way of balancing the power. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z All she had to do now was discover the stories, not just the subjects, but a way of unfolding them, that would do justice to her new knowledge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Reading was for me the key to ‘knowledge’; I swallowed facts and dates and names and themes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There are so many doors to open I am impatient to apply my own knowledge and skills to the problem. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They want to then put that knowledge to work to try to increase the brain’s capacity to broaden the limits of attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He carried the knowledge with a hot and lovely pride. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer can see the links among the concepts in his internal web of knowledge, and has forgotten that a reader needs to build an orderly tree to decipher them from his string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To my knowledge, the only time Baba had ever gone to a doctor was the time he'd caught malaria in India. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In short, literacy made the Spaniards heirs to a huge body of knowledge about human behavior and history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We just had zero knowledge, less than zero knowledge, of the process. How to apply. The forms. Checkbooks. It was not our environment.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z To Bush, the sequestering of knowledge and policy authority had one special virtue: it clipped Lawrence’s wings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His parents approved, and hers approved, and he was happy to leave for the war in the knowledge that she was waiting for him and would be there when he returned. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Except for the one time he had hit his father, he had never acted independently, and that act, his only one, had brought unwanted knowledge too, as well as some responsibility for that knowledge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, safe in the knowledge that he has done everything that he can, Baker waits for that telegraph line to sing. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Now need called knowledge out: Duny, seeing the fog blow and thin across the path before the Kargs, saw a spell that might avail him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z What looked like new knowledge was, consequently, simply old knowledge which had been mislaid, and history was assumed to go round in circles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Intelligence and knowledge had changed me, and he would resent me—as the others from the bakery resented me— because my growth diminished him. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was hard for them in the village, Winnie knew it was, and the knowledge gave her pain. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The freshness of the countryside and the knowledge that Alice is safe sends me whistling on my way to find Frightful. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But I will tell you that, right there, in the prison, debating, speaking to a crowd, was as exhilarating to me as the discovery of knowledge through reading had been. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel now had the clearest knowledge of where he was. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger asked; knowing as the words boomed from his lips that a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Using his final strength, and a special knowledge that was deep inside him, Jonas found the sled that was waiting for them at the top of the hill. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z And the pain, the first knowledge of absolute isolation and suffering, touched him throughout in its undisguised actual form. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z To Baird’s knowledge, there had been no big movement to warn people. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Erudite thirst for knowledge filling all the hidden places in his room. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There was a giant hole in my knowledge bank about these fundamental parts of history that had been skipped over in all of my education up until now. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He figured they could go on from there picking up their own knowledge and, according to his calculations, when they reached thirty, they would be twice as smart as he had been at thirty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed scientific knowledge, properly understood, must be seen to be both constructed and constrained. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “No, you asked me about the current number of magicians and I answered to the best of my knowledge. That was our agreement.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z "I certainly couldn't give a certificate. I have no knowledge whatsoever of the woman's state of health." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z And what I reckon is we’re a going to send out a rescue party, when we hear what all the other gyptians know, when we put our knowledge together. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was only the knowledge that he had escaped by the same route as I. But what had he to fear? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a certain method in the Count’s inquiries, so I shall try to put them down in sequence; the knowledge may somehow or some time be useful to me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “And naturally, Marisa, I myself am curious. And I am keen to add to my knowledge.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I explained to her that the Lackses thought she was testing them for cancer, and that they were upset about scientists using the cells without their knowledge, she was shocked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago is furious to find Michael Cassio, ‘a great arithmetician’, whose knowledge of warfare is all book-learning, has been promoted ahead of him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was knowledgeable about guerrilla warfare and helped fill many gaps in my knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After leaving the square, I raced on without any knowledge of where I was, running through one narrow lane after another. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z And when they had such a place, it was only common courtesy in anyone else who knew of it to keep his knowledge to himself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Harvard professor was known for his vast knowledge of international affairs—and his habit of insulting whoever was not in the room. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Finally, the fall of the wall did not just open the way for more people to tap into one another’s knowledge pools. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But stronger than his knowledge was his love for the boy, his devotion, his fear of losing him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z With the knowledge of the sentences his brother and the other two defendants had received, he’d known his fate would be the same. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He began to charge a modest fee for his knowledge, which enabled him to rent a house where he set up his academy of converts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Days after he graduated from university, bloated with knowledge about America, he applied for a visa at the American embassy in Lagos. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Let’s check your military knowledge,” Bull said, walking up to Ben. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And certain knowledge of an informer too . . . well, that was the plum in his pudding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Without Bobby’s knowledge, the nurses applied morphine patches to his body to ease his pain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness, the frank knowledge that you killed her and robbed her of a future and a life. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z But it was another example of both the lack of knowledge about South Africa in the rest of Africa and the extraordinary lengths the PAC would go to besmirch the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next step in the spread of sugar came through a university that was the crossroads of all the world’s knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, everyone has an opinion on why the siphon isn’t working—but our knowledge of this lost art is limited to fifth-grade science labs and movies. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I soon learned not to expect knowledge of the country they passed through. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The postmodernists were not the first to challenge the claim that knowledge of matters of fact is true knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Noah,” I blurt, sounding like the knowledge just flew into my head. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The constant learning and yearning for knowledge was what helped her finally move away from the bustle of Philadelphia to settle into the quieter, safer suburb of Ewing with my sister Kathy. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed polite, quiet,and thirsty for knowledge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant that countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge work as never before—and that America had better get ready for this. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Our archaeological knowledge of China’s emerging cities and states then becomes supplemented by written accounts of China’s first dynasties, going back to the Xia Dynasty, which arose around 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I had basked safe in the knowledge that I was forever his favorite; I took his love on faith and wrapped it around me like a blanket. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Should the letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the extent of my knowledge.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The Professor has a strongly humorous side, and I could from old knowledge detect a trace of its origin in his answer:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z That was all he wanted to derive from the experience, the knowledge that he had not cried. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood, but I also felt compelled to leave the Buddha and the great knowledge. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, different types of expert work with different types of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The history of our past voyages of discovery suggests that Voyager and other spacecraft reconnaissance missions will revolutionize our knowledge of this place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was right about the conventional nature of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He found himself on a panel with an Internet addiction expert with a particularly intimate knowledge of addiction, having spent time himself in rehab. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Who knows what brought him to that knowledge? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But Linus knew better than to expect more than confused anger from the self- made California millionaires whose knowledge of foreign policy was formed largely by the Los Angeles Times. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Good. Now listen to me. I must come to lecture to you people so that you will be set upon the correct path. I have a rather extensive knowledge of political organization.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t go far, but by the time they reached their destination, she was trembling, her muscles would taut, less from exertion than the knowledge that Matthias was somewhere in this terrible place. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I knew I could not match him and Danny in the breadth of their knowledge, but I wondered if I might not be able to keep up with them in terms of depth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The knowledge fans the rage burning within me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom-Carl sat that Sunday secure in the knowledge that the small empire he had lost so much sleep building would be his when Willoughby lost interest or died. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Drawing on all the knowledge I’d gained over the past couple months, I gave it my best shot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I have it on good report that I don’t know the first thing about them, so anything would further my knowledge.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His knowledge of geography had been shaky and his information about the fighting nonexistent; now he became an authority. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All this was public knowledge and has been related by many a writer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice trailed off as he reached the limit of his knowledge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a society, we place enormous faith in tests because we think that they are a reliable indicator of the test taker’s ability and knowledge. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then they came back and published a report, and the government used that knowledge to build the most advanced system of racial oppression known to man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Yeah. But I didn’t know that the jelly beans were a knowledge delivery system.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I reasoned that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This was far from the clear lines of problem-solving and the systematic acquisition of knowledge. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I see. And what will you do when you understand everything? Will you share your knowledge to better the world?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I’ve got to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z A form of knowledge which aims at prediction and control gets better at prediction and control. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In modern Alexandria few people have a keen appreciation, much less a detailed knowledge, of the Alexandrian Library or of the great Egyptian civilization that preceded it for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the next day it was common knowledge. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The knowledge of it was oppressive; her heart felt like iron. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Yet what frightened him, and kept him more than ever on his knees, was the knowledge that, once having fallen, nothing would be easier than to fall again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Incredibly, some of the last inscriptions are gibberish, as if scribes had lost the knowledge of writing and were reduced to meaningless imitation of their ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew my dad didn’t intend to be mean, but to him, with very little knowledge about the sport, he understood fencing from the perspective of winning and losing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The knowledge, the history, the culture—it drew them like magnets. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z No, this tremendous amount of knowledge, collected and preserved by successive generations of wise Brahmins could not be easily overlooked. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, her mom was the goddess of knowledge, and knowledge was the most powerful weapon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The key to good decision making is not knowledge. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not travel abroad to other artists’ workshops to broaden her knowledge. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The knowledge, once again, that I simply didn’t register on their radars. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z There is a delicious irony in this because Hobbes believed factual knowledge was a truly inferior kind of knowledge, science consisting solely of deductive knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I found myself less able to conceal the evidences of stress, in my uncomfortable borrowed tuxedo, and with my less-than-extensive knowledge of dining etiquette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His bland manner and the knowledge that they had wasted time to see the truth released the anger within me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Bentley is thus an advocate of the Thomas thesis: an improved technology for dealing with disease, combined with better scientific knowledge, undermined belief in magic and witchcraft. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I wasn’t around back then. But I wish I could cram some knowledge directly into your brain.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That can be as big a mistake as too little knowledge. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The students start in first grade with meaningful, but not overwhelming, differences in their knowledge and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After the hours they’d spent in freedom, it always seemed to Omakayas that she and her little brother exchanged a secret knowledge in their smiles. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It’s unbearable, this knowledge of me from someone who isn’t me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As if it held all the knowledge, the truth. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z My greatest hope is that, in time, our wisdom will become as perfect as is our knowledge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z No-nonsense nuns ruled classrooms with an iron hand, passing on to the youngest girls and boys the discipline and knowledge they would need to get ahead in a prejudiced world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was Dr. 09-01’s way to use all that we gazed upon as a lesson, and so demonstrate to me that knowledge and inquiry curled larval in all matter, awaiting release. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps she didn’t want to question the old woman’s knowledge. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pursuit of knowledge, he main-tained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1717 J. T. Desaguliers began his A Course of Experimental Philosophy with the words: ‘All the knowledge we have of Nature depends upon Facts.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Locke and everyone before him, knowledge equals truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The gull’s savagery and suspicion had been due partly to pain and partly to the unnerving knowledge that it had no companions and could not fly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Aside from an occasional trip to the flea market, my knowledge of Paris is limited to what I learned in Gigi. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Do not let things get to you, Jane. Do not give in to your rage,” she’d always say, her voice full of warning and a knowledge I was afraid to plumb. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neither prophets nor oracles have any knowledge,” she said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What the two men shared was the knowledge that they were individuals. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know whether to be awed by that knowledge or terrified. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It’s common knowledge that if you’re standing at a corner of a main street in the hood, somebody’s going to try to sell you something. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And the men in the cabin had four or five horrified seconds of knowledge before the zeppelin crashed and burst into flames. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do not keep your knowledge from us. If you stay silent, our lives are risked for no purpose.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z "The tunnel was dug for another King's Hand, whose honor would not allow him to enter such a house openly. Chataya has closely guarded the knowledge of its existence." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So as knowledge ceases to be a question of Evidence-Perspicuity and becomes a question of Evidence-Indices a whole new set of intellectual virtues are demanded of the knower. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I see your point. God’s knowledge and power are so vast, there’s no point in questioning his choices.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was enough to endure his own humiliating knowledge that if he had started after Gebu sooner, or pursued him faster, or been braver, all the mystery might have been unraveled now. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I had lost her, and with that knowledge I felt as if my heart had been tipped from its resting place in my chest to topple and fall somewhere deep inside me near my feet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I already mentioned their knowledge of hundreds of local plant and animal species and each species’ edibility, medical value, and other uses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He said it with an air of superior knowledge that irritated both of us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Clearly, if much of our knowledge is analogical in origin it cannot be certain, and the real causes of events may always escape us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A frequent visitor to the Library of Congress, Garfield asked the librarians for book recommendations, which he borrowed or purchased to expand his knowledge of history, philosophy, and other subjects. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Before tackling this problem, however, we need to unpack the apparently straightforward notion of practical knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All the while their store of knowledge about the environment increased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He had inherited her looks too, and the knowledge of it lay in his bold eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge that she was still a slave bothered her more and more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He also took solace in the knowledge that he had never said a mean word to his daughter. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hoover also told Stone that per his wishes he had raised the employment qualifications for new agents, requiring them to have some legal training or knowledge of accounting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Regent was a being whose profound intellect had had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Finishing up, he asked Raymond how he made his living, and when Raymond replied “warehouse guard,” the prosecutor informed the jury that it was common knowledge that the witness practiced the profession of procurer. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No sign of any kind of life or knowledge except the breathing and the heartbeat. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z And though his knowledge came from research rather than experience, he knew and he was accurate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Based on their personal knowledge of Walter's whereabouts at the time of the Morrison murder, family members, church members, black pastors, and others all pleaded with Sheriff Tate to release McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I know too much; I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Two humans with an extraordinary knowledge of fairy affairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Therefore, it is necessary for a prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge or not to use it according to necessity. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But as new knowledge accumulated, the printing press instead of fostering scepticism began to make possible a new type of confidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her building was constructed of personalities, materials, knowledge, and time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For in the days of Isildur the Ruling Ring passed out of all knowledge, and the Three were released from its dominion. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was not normal fire; Crabbe had used a curse of which Harry had no knowledge: As they turned a corner the flames chased them as though they were alive, sentient, intent upon killing them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When the Portuguese regained control of the area, the Dutch fled to the Caribbean, bringing knowledge of how to grow sugar with them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Ptolemys did not merely collect established knowledge; they encouraged and financed scientific research and so generated new knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We would never physically visit them, he thought, and with no sample in hand it seemed we would forever be denied knowledge of their composition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Speedy or nothing now, and the knowledge of that constricted his chest. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a deep, deep pleasure to have my whole family around me, and the only pain was the knowledge that I had missed such occasions for so many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If they had no knowledge of the mistreatment, then what do they make of this move on President Coin’s part? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I asked, the anger within me growing as it devoured the hurt and the pain the knowledge was causing. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mavens have the knowledge and the social skills to start word-of- mouth epidemics. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a sliver of man’s knowledge I was certain he possessed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A better way to exorcise the curse of knowledge is to be aware of specific pitfalls that it sets in your path. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You may not have the knowledge for such work.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached the conclusion that what was wrong with all existing systems of knowledge was that they had been cobbled together by lots of different people over long periods of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She hides her knowledge well....The silence went on, everybody afraid to speak, thoughts crisscrossing in the overfull air, eyes averted, shifting, lowered at last to the ground. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad believed in Sunday school, though, because he thought everyone should have some knowledge of the Bible. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The stealth of it shamed him—but not enough to overcome the pride he felt at the knowledge that one of the many petals on the bowl was his. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Indeed, he rejected the idea of a knowledge grounded in certainty, in proof. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This night Hamlet had revealed, through the play, his knowledge of Claudius’s crime. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And all the while there is the overwhelming knowledge that thousands of tons of earth and stone are pressing down above you. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Little black babies denied knowledge of the Mystical Body of Christ? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “So much of our brain is built to shield us from knowledge that we are far less in control than we think we are,” he adds. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That knowledge is the only thing that helps me step onto the ledge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The knowledge in his father’s eyes and in the whales’ eyes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z For all the new knowledge, we still have formidable dis- eases, still unsolved, lacking satisfactory explanation, lack- ing satisfactory treatment. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave no indication of her intentions, at least to no one who admitted to that knowledge under subsequent interrogations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge that Snape wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, but even Harry, who hated Snape, was startled at the expression twisting his thin, sallow face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Every day added something to their knowledge of the officers’ names and connections. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Steve’s smile seems more like a smirk, as if he’s reading my mind and finding not a speck of plumbing knowledge lodged within it. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Each of them added to the body of rocket knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To their knowledge, the Beiderman had never experienced the joy of breakfast in bed, and they were certain that Oliver’s excellent idea would win him over. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z These boys were like adults in their knowledge of the ways of the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am a physicist,” he snapped, “and I have no knowledge to lose in which physics has caused me to know sin.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z What exactly was it that enabled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science to make progress in a way that previous systems of knowledge could not? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She had certainly never heard of anything like it at the Academy, and her lack of knowledge frightened her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I was, of course, wrong; yet I had learned something about Gethenians which in the long run proved to be useful knowledge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Every black person in the South lived with the knowledge that he or she could be lynched by intentionally or accidentally violating the sensibilities of any white person with whom they came into contact. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Nothing could be more disastrous than this, as we know, to the advancement of knowledge itself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So there can be no science until there is a reliable way of publicizing knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “There’s that, too, but no. I mean the curse of knowledge. It was easy when we were the only victims.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They are, in a word, experts, people whose authority rests on experience rather than theoretical knowledge. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s in me, I tremble with it—both the knowledge of what’s to come and the power of being so close, so close. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Faust, as portrayed by Goethe, was an intellectual who sold his soul to the devil for worldly knowledge, power and pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His complicity in behind-the-scenes political plotting was common knowledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I used my knowledge of this phase of spiritual pathology, and laid down a rule that she should not be present with Lucy or think of her illness more than was absolutely required. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z We are privileged to live among brilliant and passionately inquisitive people, and in a time when the search for knowledge is generally prized. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were going to miss his rants and all his knowledge about random animals and insects, and if Shelly would be able to spot a bedbug like he had taught her. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Here is the place for the application of all the knowledge I have acquired. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z His knowledge of the river enabled him to calculate the best time to begin a trip across. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I saw her only on vacations, we didn’t have the day-in, day- out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I grew up suspicious of both. Power and knowledge,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Before much longer Redwall would require the skills and knowledge of all its woodland allies. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Gunters loved to play the game of one-upmanship and were constantly trying to prove they had acquired more obscure knowledge than everyone else. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I knew already when he was a boy that I could not prevent his mind from going to the world for knowledge. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Ffer description was accurate, so far as my knowledge extends, but the emphasis was one of disparagement. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Will they think of those little pagans doomed forever for lack of baptism and knowledge of the True Faith? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z They would give knowledge to each man who came to them, they said, ripe wisdom and a quickening of the spirit. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe they do and they are just keeping the knowledge to themselves. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The artifact was based on the possibility of reviewing every morning, from beginning to end, the totality of knowledge acquired during one's life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “There is a certain tutor, of whom I have some knowledge, who I think might suit the purpose,” said Mr. Jaggers. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z By doing what Maria herself did almost every day—collecting, watching, and documenting—he had added to the world’s knowledge of these little-known creatures. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It was also a public event, the beginning of a process whereby new knowledge, in opposition to the old culture of secrecy, established its legitimacy within a public arena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a great gift that Vetch had given him, the knowledge of his true name. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The printing press was the precondition for this new insistence that knowledge, no longer authoritative, might at last become reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The vast Muslim world was wonderful for the growth of knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “There will be wonderful traffic in knowledge between our two nations now. We will understand each other’s histories.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They arrived like shipments of lambs, to hear the monks tell it, and with no more knowledge of their provenance than lambs, either. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He rarely feels the reality of knowledge, of other men’s thoughts and imaginings, on his own pulses... Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It no longer surprised them; but he made no secret that he owed his recent knowledge largely to Farmer Maggot, whom he seemed to regard as a person of more importance than they had imagined. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s public knowledge. It’s not my problem you just found out,” his mother is saying, pacing double-time down a West Wing corridor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By the time Harriet Ross was six years old, she had unconsciously absorbed many kinds of knowledge, almost with the air she breathed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to these patrons, Cleopatra had access to an enormous body of knowledge for reading and research. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “What do you mean, Maxim? What isn’t the right sort of knowledge?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Several windows still contained patterned glass of deep reds and golds, amazing things, for knowledge of the way of making such remarkable glass had been lost. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a natural talent for selling to people, but without knowledge and resources, where was that going to get me? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Here Hobbes distinguishes between two types of knowledge: science, which is, as Hume would later say, about the relationship between ideas; and what he calls prudence, which is about facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He kept the knowledge of it buried inside himself like a pirate treasure. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z His story was vetted and scrutinized by former prisoners and guards from the camps, as well as by human rights lawyers, South Korean journalists, and other experts with extensive knowledge of the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But as he was taken up in the universities of medieval and Renaissance Europe his works became a textbook of acquired knowledge, not a project to provoke further enquiry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As a diplomat, he negotiated with the confederacy of Five Nations in 1744; in those days, knowledge of Indian ways was an essential part of the statesman’s toolkit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z More rashly, I announced my intention—told friends and neighbors, confidently informed my publisher, made it common knowledge among those who knew me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “So, will you thirty-three new trustees share this quest for truth and knowledge with me?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I had not, to my knowledge, been accused of committing a crime, and yet I was now involved in a system of tests and appointments. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Reacting to the portrait in “a direct, straightforward fashion,” without the benefit of additional knowledge, deprives us of an understanding that is necessary for full appreciation. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s my fault. I heard the tryout was based on Bureau knowledge and I told Amari about it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He did not hesitate to speak like that, to his father and his uncle, because the subject was books and scientific knowledge—those things that Rocky had learned to believe in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ellsberg jumped at the chance to expand his knowledge of the war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was another problem, which lay completely outside the scope of sixteenth-century knowledge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The four years she had spent doing monotonous calculations on gust alleviation had only intensified the desire to drain every drop of knowledge she could from the engineers she worked with. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now that the location of the Jade Key was public knowledge, deciphering the Quatrain and figuring out how to obtain the key was relatively easy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva’s old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z She was, to the best of our knowledge, cured. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Gist’s knowledge of native languages would help when Washington wanted to talk to the Indians. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Defeasible knowledge, knowledge that might be corrected in the light of new observations, was merely opinion or probability. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They set off eagerly, to find something to drink, and in the knowledge that they would have to walk only a few miles to the park. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the despair that any halfway brings, with the knowledge that everything you’ve gone through awaits again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And I knew in spite of the anguish within me that the sun goeth down, for the heavens themselves conveyed that knowledge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And, as Washington later remarked, Boudinot had “better opportunities than most other officers in the army, to obtain knowledge of the Enemy’s Situation, motions and...designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a white man of intellect and true knowledge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Marveling at Ann’s vast knowledge of federal housing laws, a HUD consultant admitted that “she knows more than most bureaucrats in Washington.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And many a time Siddhartha even doubted whether this knowledge, this thought, was of such great value, whether it was not also perhaps the childish self-flattery of thinkers, who were perhaps only thinking children. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Our knowledge of life is limited to death. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But the gap in the knowledge of the Wise has been filled at last. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “It’s ironic that Zero fears it so much, then,” I reply, “but uses his own knowledge of technology to try to stop you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was twenty-seven that year, and in the pit of her stomach she carried the cold knowledge that, for her, life had been lived. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, with Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, moral certainty was required to give way to a new sort of temporary knowledge, a purely provisional understanding. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their conclusion was that anything one could know about an event taking place at a quantum scale was limited to what one could observe—and this knowledge depended on the means of observation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I wanted answers to the questions, but would the knowledge of the answers make me share in the original sin of Adam and Eve? Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It should immediately be apparent that in a culture in which experience was taking on a new significance, the term ‘fact’ was invaluable because it identified that type of knowledge which is grounded in experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Cuz knowledge is dangerous,” he says, as serious as I’ve ever seen him and when I look into his Noise to see what he’s hiding, it roars up and slaps me back. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The knowledge that Bunny’s body actually lay about two miles to the southwest did not lend much interest or urgency to the search, and I plodded along in a daze, my eyes on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Alexander encouraged respect for alien cultures and the open-minded pursuit of knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “That the wind is in your employ, and blows all the world’s knowledge to your door.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But now their art and knowledge were baffled; for there were many sick of a malady that would not be healed; and they called it the Black Shadow, for it came from the Nazgûl. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I begged Wemmick, in conclusion, to understand that my help must always be rendered without Herbert’s knowledge or suspicion, and that there was no one else in the world with whom I could advise. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But perhaps some of the enslaved people had the personal pleasure of realizing that they had knowledge that the plantation owners needed. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Will you let me return? Will you let me share my knowledge with your students? I place myself and my talents at your disposal. I am yours to command.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z If science does not produce knowledge in that sense, they conclude, it cannot be producing knowledge at all. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It had really begun back in the Charlestown Prison, when Bimbi first made me feel envy of his stock of knowledge. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The primary lifeline between an incoming sentence and a reader’s web of knowledge is the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “No, I had no knowledge of them,” he admitted. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “She said you had the knowledge in your fingers. More than she did.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Were they motivated to apply this knowledge to developing food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge had made him even less eager to find himself in her company, but thankfully, this year he would be dropping Divination. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z An even more general term was available: ‘natural knowledge’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And that brought perhaps a new bit of knowledge to come from the ravens: They, and all birds, are said to have descended from the dinosaurs. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “He says there is a network of falconers who use their knowledge to keep these birds flying.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you doubting my baseball knowledge, Number Three?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Each time she told no one, hoping that if she sealed the knowledge tight inside her, it would stay and grow. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The knowledge is more painful than my wounds, for if I die, Darin dies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I consoled myself with the knowledge that with no dinner plans, I’d have more time to sleep and prepare for tomorrow’s competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In it Mantell was characterized as a mediocre anatomist whose modest contributions to paleontology were limited by a "want of exact knowledge." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And so she sat stiff-tongued, surrounded by students who were all folded easily on their seats, all flush with knowledge, not of the subject of the classes, but of how to he in the classes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I felt weak and powerless in the knowledge of the impending doom. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheap pulp tales enlarged my knowledge of the world more than anything I had encountered so far. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge, the knowledge: what he had discovered. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge struck him with a numbing shock. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And the story, while easy to follow even without a knowledge of Italian, had little resonance for either of them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He said it would be laughable for me to continue to study luxurious and abstract knowledge when a world of practical utility awaited my laboring hands. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, all his knowledge was powerless to cure the chicken fever of his daughter Pancha, which had dispatched her to the Hereafter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She had the money, knowledge, and vision to complete such a project. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I have to cling to the knowledge that I am only here for one day, and I have to make it through. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Actress Laura Keene’s knowledge of the theater’s layout enabled her to bypass the audience and crowds that stood between her and Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no knowledge that Wilkins had just revealed the most precious piece of her data to Watson.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z And then I’m twisting and wriggling out of his embrace, returning to my full-grown size and person, my full-grown knowledge and revulsion and hatred. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Compounded by Lawrence’s campaign for the Super, a project that many physicists considered technically and morally dubious, this record undermined his reputation as a scientist s scientist driven by the quest for knowledge alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mrs. Turton says when something happens that no one can explain, it means you have bumped up against the edge of human knowledge. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I knew that when my letter became public knowledge back in America, many would be astounded—loved ones, friends, and enemies alike. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he fired quick questions about her background, her skills, her knowledge of Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played—and play—in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the time the students graduated—those of them who persevered—their range of knowledge would be wider than that of any other doctor in history. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge means that we’re more likely to overestimate the average reader’s familiarity with our little world than to underestimate it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I told myself they were not gawking curiosity seekers, but scientists here in search of knowledge. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Moral certainty, grounded in probability, had, in the writings of Wilkins and Locke, joined deductive or self-evident knowledge as a form of truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “That’s not for me to say,” was Amy’s grim reply, but her lips would smile, and there was a traitorous sparkle of the eye which betrayed that she knew her power and enjoyed the knowledge. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z We can establish ‘the verity of the fact’, he says, without having knowledge of the cause. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Think of all the embraces, all the private jokes, customs, greetings, names, dreams, all the shared knowledge and capacity of a black family injected into that vessel of flesh and bone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My heart was pounding, but I consoled myself with the knowledge that pretty soon I wouldn’t have to deal with Andy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No knowledge of fear nor rifles nor anything else was there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z “Knowledge is power. Power to do evil, like Jeanine ... or power to do good, like what we’re doing. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Opening her eyes, she knew at once what had happened and the bleak knowledge made her shut her eyes again. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The knowledge made Billy much less sure of himself than he had been. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “So many ignorant lands in need of my knowledge. I will teach them the glories of tilling, irrigation, fertilizing!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And however much they played and were children, still their faces were scored with the knowledge and cares that children should not have, their eyes were knowing and guileful beyond their years. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The question I ask is not ‘Were Regiomontanus and Hobbes right about mathematics?’ but ‘How did their understanding of mathematics help lay the groundwork for reliable scientific knowledge?’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All she did with that knowledge was to give herself airs and lord it over the other urchins. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z More than that, for knowledge of runes, and for power, he sacrificed himself to himself. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Believe it or not, your accrued, cultural knowledge, added to a little enthusiasm and singing, is more than enough to be able to incorporate music into a lesson or curriculum. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The discovery of America in 1492. created a new enterprise that intellectuals could engage in: the discovery of new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z My knowledge of Canuck French derives from motion pictures usually with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and it consists largely of “By gar.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a detailed knowledge of all of those factors, innovativeness becomes unpredictable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He began a whispered dialogue with me, imploring me to get the testifying expert to say things about his intent that were really outside the expert's knowledge. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I do not now nor did I ever have anything in common with any of them, nothing except a knowledge of Greek and the year of my life I spent in their company. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The African knowledge gained thereby explains the Olmec's rapid rise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The knowledge began to pass among them, passing without words, that it was over. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only that, but its algorithms were built on the full sum of human knowledge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If you have any knowledge of where she might be, please send me a personal correspondence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z This would be done with the full knowledge of the state president, Coetsee said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Taisin had learned about healing tonics at the Academy, but her knowledge of them was limited to the relatively harmless brew she had made for Shae the night before. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But there are irreparable gaps in our historical knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “To control us. And so our learning was lost, along with our leadership, and so much else. A chain of knowledge handed down over centuries, and a library to shame even your great Zosma.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Plain and simple explanations on living off the sea were given in abundance, but a basic knowledge of seafaring was assumed by the author of the manual. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “One that even the genetically pure cannot fight off. I don’t know how Nita knows about it, since it’s not supposed to be public knowledge, but I suppose we’ll find out some other time.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z To the best of my knowledge, for all the talk this question has engendered over the years, there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And they talk among themselves as if their knowledge were second nature to every educated person. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The vuvv happily sold their knowledge to captains of industry in exchange for rights to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy fields and some invisible quantum events. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No one knew what might happen if a systematic search for new knowledge was undertaken. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It means there’s secret knowledge embedded in the Tales'.” “Not so useless now, are they?” said Olive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I kept the knowledge locked within myself, taking it out from time to time to admire in secret. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That was valuable knowledge, because while it is not hard to grow sugar cane, farmers who plan on making sugar itself face a special challenge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Euclid controls the gate to the castle of knowledge, where a mortar and a cannon are being fired to illustrate the path of projectiles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had a need to know, even if the purpose of such knowledge was not evident to either of us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Consequently two different scientific communities will always produce two radically different bodies of scientific fact and theory, and science is not a cross-cultural form of knowledge but a local consensus, specific to a particular community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Haunted by the knowledge that one chooses to become a student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not looking for a brand-new theory; he did not yet have a conception of knowledge as progressive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To my knowledge, no other cat or dog in Coalwood had ever been neutered before. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I did seem to have a vague knowledge that Jews had been killed somewhere, long ago. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Human beings, Montaigne argued, are imperfect, and so human knowledge is necessarily unreliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Come along with us, and give these boys the benefit of your expert knowledge.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He legs it toward the stables, limbs already buzzing with the steady knowledge of Henry’s body getting incrementally closer to his. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z British intelligence, with its thorough knowledge of the French landing, was ahead of the Culpers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Every bit of itself—even its knowledge of itself—turns to mush. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Bill is a very nice fellow, amiable and full of knowledge, experienced on mountain trails, and with the inestimable bonus that he is a gifted orthopedic surgeon—just what you want in a dangerous wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She did this secretly without her parents’ knowledge, until the day her father found her parachute knife in her school bag. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Byrd shakes her head, not like she’s doubting Axel’s knowledge of roadrunner facts, like she’s shaking the last images of the garter snake from her mind. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There could be no doubt that Dumbledore’s detailed knowledge of those with whom he was traveling was even less welcome to Voldemort; however, he rallied almost at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z This mole had provided the KGB with detailed knowledge of the very operation that Bill Harvey had worked for months to keep hidden. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z His face, contorted, looked ready to cry, but even his tears were stopped by the knowledge of what he had done. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I suspected there was knowledge there to be gained. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps knowledge, properly understood, is the product of the very process these new studies describe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Adam said, “I’ve wondered why a man of your knowledge would work a desert hill place.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that the usual sources of her knowledge were natural ones. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Deciphering the laws of heredity, he wrote, would transform “man’s outlook on the world, and his power over nature” more “than any other advance in natural knowledge that can be foreseen.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They were Maryknoll nuns, members of that missionary order whose special task is to go into a country, with knowledge of its language, and convert its people to the Catholic faith. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Rhetoric was, for Aristotle, dialectic’s wayward cousin: having as its method not “this therefore that” but “probably this so likely that,” and as its object not knowledge but persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z What did the map of knowledge look like before the invention of the fact? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Much of the necessary knowledge is now available but we do not use it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The voyages of discovery brought about an astonishing transformation in geographical knowledge from 1460 onwards. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Whoever had carved the stela had some knowledge of writing and mathematics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once more there came to him the pride of strength and knowledge. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Stressing memorization, my teachers implied that education is largely a matter of acquiring knowledge already discovered. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each new word makes the child’s knowledge of the world more precise. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And because the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, is written in Arabic, scholars throughout the Muslim world learned to read Arabic and to share their knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Even if the Water Angel isn’t willing to share with us, having the knowledge is enough. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They slept at their posts in the shadow of the church so that no one crept in for consolation without their knowledge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to avoid this bitter end, we would all have to be bom again, and bom with the knowledge of alternatives. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In Newton’s time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” Dr. Luce told them, offering an explanation for my disappearance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In addition to all those technological drawbacks, the Phaistos disk was printed at a time when knowledge of writing was confined to a few palace or temple scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our present knowledge of the Cosmos shares this disagreeable but inevitable feature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had avoided letting anyone at Chapel Hill High School know where I worked, specifically to keep that knowledge from falling into the hands of Trent and the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her morals, and her salvation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Adams’s partner in the dance was Abigail, whose political instincts rivaled Madison’s legendary skills and whose knowledge of her husband’s emotional makeup surpassed all competitors. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It must have been Nat from the beginning, she admitted now, and with that knowledge came a sureness that she had never known in all the last bewildering year. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The medical profession is unconsciously irritated by lay knowledge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Confidence in experimental knowledge thus requires the natural/artificial distinction to be undermined and replaced by the conviction that by performing procedures that correspond to natural processes I can have true knowledge of those processes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But, nevertheless, they have one common enterprise, that of transmuting signs and symptoms into knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But this involved acknowledging the limits of their knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After all my troubles, wasn’t it my right to expect some reward in the form of knowledge or revelation? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Shut up, Percy Jackson. Your camp director is not here. He was recalled to Olympus. This is common knowledge.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Opinion, experience and persuasion were necessarily unreliable and unsatisfactory; knowledge had to be built on firmer foundations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been estimated that we probably have real knowledge of only a small proportion of the microbes of the earth, because most of them cannot be cultivated alone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The instructor, working on the knowledge that his students either had taken it before and flunked it, or had already had it in high school, sluffed over the preliminaries and got right down to translation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The best guides to a knowledge of Greek mythology are the Greek writers, who believed in what they wrote. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes as much sense as believing that a technical knowledge of molecular biology will render a person unappreciative of the mysteries and complexities of life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I try not to listen to this knowledge. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z But today I was awakening with a new knowledge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Inherited knowledge could no longer be accepted without question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She smiled to herself and had the odd, sudden, curious knowledge that, if it ever came to that, Old Tallow would protect her, Omakayas, with her life. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Once the message became public knowledge, gunters nicknamed it “the Limerick.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That is how the content of a passage of text becomes integrated into the reader’s web of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Their publication of new discoveries had been halted during the war, but they had not stopped thinking—or absorbing the knowledge gained from work on the physics of the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The horse was not the source of the answer but merely a reflection of the trainer’s knowledge of the answer. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z None of this has been said, but the knowledge of his power hangs nevertheless in the air as he pats my thigh, withdraws himself behind the hanging sheet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I snapped my Zippo lighter and burned the evidence with full knowledge that I compounded the contempt. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He made contact with the young people in the town, who lacked political knowledge, and he embarked on a stealthy campaign of instigation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As I swiped the ATM card, I tamped down the knowledge that my funds would run out. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of the buck’s imminent death seemed to magnify everything: the beauty of the animal, the smell of the forest, the beating of her heart. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then Treebeard praised all their deeds, of which he seemed to have full knowledge; and at last he stopped and looked long at Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There were deep pools of knowledge in the dusty volumes quietly shelved in the libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Early in the new time he had learned the most important thing, die truly vital knowledge that drives all creatures in die forest— food is all. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z In such circumstances the conviction that there was no new knowledge to be had might bow and crack, but it would not quite shatter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The knowledge that she would be sold terrified her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn't he just tell me what it was all about instead of trying to impress me with his knowledge? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge hides them from the writer, who therefore must put some effort into spotting and extirpating them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So far, to our knowledge, King’s had not built any three-dimensional models of the necessary atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then they would face another day of trying to earn enough for the whole year with the heavy knowledge that they were going to end the season as they started it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z New instruments meant new perceptions, and with them came new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Our first knowledge of the symptoms of acute poisoning by DDT was furnished by several British investigators, who deliberately exposed themselves in order to learn the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That knowledge may nevertheless inspire others, by idea diffusion, to devise their own routes to such a result. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While I was a fair amateur boxer, I had very little knowledge of even the rudiments of combat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bailey would not refrain from remarking on our classmates’ lack of knowledge. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Epicurus likewise declared that “there is no end to the knowledge of things in the sky. . . than peace of mind and firm conviction.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Anyone who says that, with the means at present at our disposal and with our present knowledge we can utilize atomic energy, is talking moonshine.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Do you have knowledge of him selling them?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She loves to drop knowledge any chance she gets. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Still, his knowledge was useful—and the Soviets wanted every scrap of information they could get. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was bursting with creative talent and had ideas he acted upon independently without the approval of, or the knowledge of, Ma. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as well, as the campaign to bring me up to domestic scratch was, without my knowledge or cooperation, ginning up in earnest. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They concluded: The “motivation to disclose our internal thoughts and knowledge to others may serve to sustain the behaviors that underlie the extreme sociality of our species.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z For one thing, I was certain its body of knowledge concerning plane curves, angles, and polygons would help me design my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He came back not just tan and full of knowledge and pictures, but ripe with stories of the European girls he had hooked up with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Or perhaps she was already drowned, and her fear came from that knowledge. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘Our Knowledge’, in Locke’s phrase, which must conform to observation, experience and testimony, is knowledge as acquaintance, but Locke still hankers over justified true belief. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He goes out, safe in the knowledge that I’m not the reporting kind. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Just what he told her, his manner, his knowledge of Imogen’s family. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If they have the misfortune to run out of those provisions, even they starve to death despite their detailed knowledge of locally available wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s knowledge that helps you read situations correctly and get what you want. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Hush,” he said, “don’t fret. It’s still there inside you, all that knowledge. Just be calm and let yourself find it. Don’t force it. Just sort of float down to touch it...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All that kept him from breaking down completely was the knowledge that what he was doing was best for them, too. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Because of those undoubted effects of childhood environment and learned knowledge on IQ test results, the psychologists’ efforts to date have not succeeded in convincingly establishing the postulated genetic deficiency in IQs of nonwhite peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For all the knowledge and pleasure they gave me, the books I read in childhood did not allow me to see myself past Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This is certainly possible, but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have, or are very near to, a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Although these questions might seem to be simple, they reflect a depth of music knowledge garnered throughout a lifetime of cultural exposure to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Wolves and gruesome ends, and signed with an A\\ Does this mean it was Lord Fredrick who requested those disturbing tableaux and without your knowledge?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z For what creature had not been freely given the aid and special knowledge of the kindly mice? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But she had no knowledge of what she waited for. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z During each visit, Grandfather always gave us a special medicine that was supposed to enhance the brains capacity to absorb and retain knowledge. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z How can we lift the curse of knowledge? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d have to gain direct knowledge of the plants, animals, and fungi I was going to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It ruined his judgment, canceled his knowledge, weakened him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Just the knowledge that he’d been defeated by a pack of teen beauty queens. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Families would eat large breakfasts late, then dress for snow and go out in the knowledge that they’d return to warm, snug houses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Warcross’s virtual Tokyo is a sight to behold—but this is real, and the knowledge of it being real makes me light-headed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Politicians like to tell us that we live in “a knowledge economy,” but they might just as well call it a rhetoric economy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “My dear Constance, kindly do not pour scorn on things you know nothing of. Leave it to those with specialized knowledge.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge she hadn’t left a will, so the county owned the property now. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z He was an entertaining talker, whose knowledge of North Korea thrilled Shin, especially when the subject was food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I have been given no knowledge of this,” he said to Coll. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z I ask, since this is openly spread knowledge—something that everyone whispers, because they heard it from their parents, though no one ever says it to Anise’s face. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z All the kids knew the double meaning his answer conveyed because it was public knowledge now. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Deen had been alone, briefly, with the knowledge that it was time again for a Changing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the case of scientific knowledge the fog never clears: the summit is invisible and truth always remains out of sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But there is no collective term for all the different positions which have in common a recognition that some forms of knowledge of nature are more successful than others, and that consequently knowledge can progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Samuel Collier, by then a grown man, was recognized for his knowledge, skills, and ability to communicate with the natives in their own language. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Adults are particularly accursed when they try to estimate other people’s knowledge and skills. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I hope my experience will be a microcosm for readers, who will also appreciate art in direct proportion to the amount of knowledge they bring to it. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Without his knowledge, and much to his delight, at the end of the broadcast he was given the tickets to Russia, with a stopover in Belgium, Sabena’s home country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z From them, it should be possible to derive a complete system of knowledge embracing every aspect of the natural world, just as one can deduce the whole of Euclidean geometry from five axioms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was a wonderful teacher, full of knowledge and full of life. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The Court ruled in 2002 that, under federal law, public housing tenants can be evicted regardless of whether they had knowledge of or participated in alleged criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He loved to backpack with his family on weekends, and he had an intricate professional knowledge of many mountain ranges in the state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And while Melisandre had the knowledge to make more powders, she lacked many rare ingredients. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z What they told me of this world filled some gaps in the knowledge I’d acquired in mine, and I began to see the answer to many mysteries. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me, what knowledge have you digested lately, old one?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His was an applied knowledge and theirs was not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He could leave office in the knowledge that his discredited policies and singular style had worked. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As the children of families that valued scholarly pursuits, Ernest and Merle both were inculcated with the virtues of study and knowledge from an early age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Maybe the sure knowledge that she is alive makes all of that possible again—even if I never see proof of it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Our claims to knowledge, Montaigne said, are generally misconceived because we will not acknowledge our limits as human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The doom of her words dragged me down, anchored me in misery at the knowledge that I could have avoided what was coming. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The guilt, the what ifs, and the knowledge were for later. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It came as an enormous shock to her, this knowledge, and at the same time it was something she had always known, something until now hidden. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The net effect was that for all his quiet humility the man’s wide-ranging knowledge and quiet eloquence commanded absolute respect, and never more than when he was at work in his shop, plying his craft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Thus religion, Latin literature and Aristotelian philosophy all concurred: there was no such thing as new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Of the seventy-three books Democritus is said to have written, covering all of human knowledge, not a single work survives. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bechu made good use of his knowledge of English by writing to the elite newspapers in British Guiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Even with his too-small glasses and my knowledge of his little fancy lady kit under the front seat, I reminded myself there was a distinct possibility he was capable of killing me with his brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So now I risked everything, confronting fate and the knowledge that I had authored my own demise. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They knew intellectually what was right, but that knowledge wasn’t enough to change the way they played the game. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Yes, we know everything, but I often wonder if anyone bothers to look at all that knowledge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Along with the knowledge of why she was gone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Failure, after all, just added to our body of knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From one point of view, the knowledge we end up with seems to be culturally relative, contingent, peculiar; from another it seems to be commonsensical, predictable, inevitable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Most horrifying to Reggie was the knowledge that the Church would soon phone his parents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As for latitude and longitude, my marine knowledge was strictly limited to what lived in the sea and did not extend to what cruised on top of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “The devil has only thirty-three degrees of knowledge- known as Masonry,” Reginald said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There are all kinds of power—gang-type violent authority, sports-type physical prowess and social prestige, material wealth and economic dominance, power that comes from leadership, intellect, scholarship, knowledge. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Negro therefore prized education as the only doorway into the world of knowledge and dignity to which he aspired. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I love the smell of old bookstores—paper, knowledge, and probably mildew. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He has not grown wiser, he has not gained knowledge, he has not climbed any higher.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z For Herbor thought thus to get the count of days or years, and so set his love’s heart at rest with certain knowledge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor did his insider knowledge of interest rates ever tempt him to take personal advantage: “But you remember the saying with regard to Caesar’s Wife,” he wrote to Henry Lee. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I have very little knowledge about TB, but it seemed to me an extremely sinister disease, the way it went on so invisibly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Tree-ear would stay behind to attend to the draining, resigned and envious in the knowledge that Min was taking the clay to the wheel. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men’s failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "But how? Only a few men in the whole country possess the knowledge —" "Then one of them is an inmate of a semi-madhouse," the vet said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Any knowledge of fairies or magic, of course, must be kept closely to the vest.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Alongside these we can put the mechanical reproduction of text and images by means of the printing press, which transformed the communication of knowledge and established new types of intellectual community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Out of love for Lyra, Lanre had sought knowledge where knowledge is better left alone, and gained it at a terrible price. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z None of them wanted to admit to the truth: their knowledge of colas was incredibly shallow. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was rumored that the white officer had been a Swede and had had a poor knowledge of English. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that with the knowledge I’ve gained from living with the Warraskoyacks, we don’t ever have to be hungry again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Gone in a moment. Ended. In the years that followed, pursuit of knowledge was punished. All science and inquiry were dead. Which brings us to you,” he told the delegates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The topic corresponds to the small territory within the vast web of knowledge into which the incoming sentences should be merged. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He did not speak, but his face silently radiated love and serenity, understanding and knowledge. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z He possessed great knowledge, said the believers; he remembered his former lives, he had attained Nirvana and never returned on the cycle, he plunged no more into the troubled stream of forms. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem was contacting him without the knowledge of anyone who might betray her to her father. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But where were the Brahmins, the priests, the wise men, who were successful not only in having this most profound knowledge, but in experiencing it? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five miles of highway passed without his knowledge, twenty-five miles vanished because Ben had retreated to the land behind the eye again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z More bits of knowledge to grasp and hold in her memory. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Bacon then complicates matters by using the adjective experimentalis to cover all knowledge grounded in experience; and he has no verb for ‘to experiment’ other than experiri. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was more bad news, though, as the parties exchanged threats, and the second human displayed an uncommon knowledge of fairy affairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z My breath hitches at what I see laid bare in his gaze: a wrenching knowledge, a bitter understanding of pain that I know well. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Chief Justice Fikeis takes over, barking out question after question, testing each boy's knowledge about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z And every fall a great number of men set out to prove that without talent, training, knowledge, or practice they are dead shots with rifle or shotgun. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Candidate instructors, it stipulated, were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages, and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z If knowledge is so important, how come Papa didn’t tell me the truth? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I hug my knowledge, which is new but doesn’t surprise me: boys are my secret allies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His home, the hall called Breidablik, was a place of joy and music and knowledge. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But the cumulative effect was a fundamental transformation in the nature of our knowledge of the physical world, the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why exactly did the significance and status of experimental knowledge change? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I look up at Caleb, whose eyes are alight with knowledge, like there’s a live wire running through each of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He had a comprehensive knowledge of the case—from the suspects to the trails of evidence—and he had developed an extensive network of informants that included many outlaws. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Sometimes creativity seems wasteful, illogical . . . unless it’s done for a greater purpose. In this case, the accumulation of knowledge.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z For all their knowledge of astronomy and architecture and mathematics, the Scholars crumbled beneath the Empire's invasion. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Others, like Wilson, absorbed what knowledge and experience they needed from the Rad Lab and launched successful careers elsewhere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her superior knowledge of its habits and predilections. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After that first time, the knowledge had grown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they moved from discipline to discipline, the new scientists carried with them a set of assumptions about how to construct new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d always admired Sister Sears, and been jealous of her knowledge of music. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z What made him feel shy was the knowledge that the Director disapproved—disapproved and yet had been betrayed into doing the forbidden thing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had never used her knowledge of magic as a weapon before, and she knew there were proscriptions against it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Rosser leads his weary men back toward Rice’s Station, content in the knowledge that he has single-handedly saved the Confederacy—for the moment. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Water Claire repeated in her soft voice, and though she said no more, they knew that she was mourning the knowledge of the years that the sea had gulped away. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Have extensive disciplinary knowledge and some interdisciplinary understanding. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z You were stung in your first Hunger Games, so unlike most of us, you have firsthand knowledge of the effects of the venom.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He’d destroyed cultures, destroyed invaluable knowledge, destroyed so much of what had once been bright and good. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Scientific knowledge is not, in reality, unalterable truth, even if it appears to be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As I did, I began to see how my new knowledge made sense of the way my mother and I had lived for so many years. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “You have dangerous knowledge. It is only a matter of time before Claudius takes aim at your life.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The basic thing about the Amazon is that these people had a longterm period to learn about and experience and benefit from their knowledge of the environment,” Meggers said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I promise,” she said, “if I get into any sort of trouble, I will swear to my last breath that you were deceived by me, and had no knowledge of anything.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was no way to stop the sands of knowledge from slipping through the hourglass of my mind. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite Gaur’s lack of formal education, he was my superior in virtually every sphere of knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of psychology, of what people fear, losing their beauty? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The knowledge acquired in dissection had few, if any, practical applications. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Take it as a warning, for whatever profit that knowledge may be. But do not listen overmuch to the echoes. Others have done so, and have wandered hopeless ever since.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z As a coach, I could give my fencers all of my knowledge, energy, and enthusiasm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In some way like that, you cannot teach a young woman to have knowledge of the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something, anyway, a thing she could do, a kind of knowledge. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The shameful knowledge grew in them and they did not know how to begin confession. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, using the best tools they have and all the knowledge that they can gather, they work to create future environments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I remember that she had knowledge. And she was only a maegi." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The intent is to reflect “the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Rindlisbacher was among those with only a passing knowledge of texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “She can’t separate herself from her own knowledge,” she says as she draws her weapon. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Special knowledge did not make a slave any less a slave—you were neither freed or paid. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Our puzzle is that we have Newcomen in Dartmouth in or around 1698, and we can see no way in which knowledge of the steam engine can reach him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were wise men who retained the knowledge of tribal history and custom in their heads and whose opinions carried great weight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can have the knowledge of ending cleanly,” he says. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Sebond had harnessed faith and reason together, Montaigne’s critique set out to undermine faith by showing that all claims to knowledge are overstated. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The result of such an approach, which looks to us just like common sense but was revolutionary at the time, was a transformation in the reliability of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z SCORPIUS: Okay, second point—more significant point—we’re going back without any knowledge of whether we can travel back afterwards. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z First, he rejected all existing knowledge as being unfit for making discoveries and useless for transforming the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Sierra actually gasped when they walked in through the front gates and stood surrounded by all those pillared temples of knowledge and lush lawns. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I snap off hanging vines and use my newfound knowledge from training to practice knots and weave nets. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He drops knowledge just as he's slapping down a set of cards or a domino onto a table, and his homies can’t do anything but bow down to his greatness and keep their mouths shut. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And only within the past decade have all the varied pieces of research come to form a whole so that biological oxidation could become part of the common knowledge of biologists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps I will tell her in a future day, but presently this is dangerous knowledge, capital material, which can only serve to place her within the reach of hazard, even more than she is now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The courtyard stands silent, empty except for me staring at a puddle of blood where a boy once stood, chilled by the knowledge that if I’m not careful, I’ll end up just like him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was always valuable to be familiar with regulations, because the warders themselves were often ignorant of them and could be intimidated by one’s superior knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gods, I’m exhausted. There’s nothing like the certain knowledge of your own death to tucker you out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Scarlett had experienced it—the knowledge that a teacher was just about to tell them that she’d been to Inverness on holiday, or that someone had dropped a spoon in just that way before. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They are new additions to secure knowledge; they are, in our terms, theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When Pipkin had planted in himself, like some somber tree, the knowledge that Hazel would never return, his bewilderment exceeded his grief: and this bewilderment he saw on every side among his companions. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because of your father, and his knowledge of the other worlds,” the daemon replied. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a serious one, but the knowledge of medicine and anatomy I'd absorbed willy-nilly in Dr. Bright's service told me that no artery had been severed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This conceptual framework has proved remarkably stable, even while the scientific knowledge it is used to describe and justify has changed beyond all recognition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thirdly, space exploration would bring an unprecedented opportunity to expand the body of human knowledge about the universe, prompted the pamphlet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This girl’s guileless remark came as an illumination, an instant knowledge that brought with it the first buds of true shame. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Creatures that have neither clocks nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge about time and the weather; and about direction, too, as we know from their extraordinary migratory and homing journeys. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “How little you know of men, and of the queen, your mistress!”she said, as if she were privy to some deeper knowledge. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If knowledge is so dangerous, why does Nyla have others ready to be used socked away here? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As regards the first question, an entire field of science, termed ethnobiology, studies peoples’ knowledge of the wild plants and animals in their environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The power is not divinity but a deep knowledge of how fragile everything—even the Dream, especially the Dream—really is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “To my knowledge this is the first criminal case I’ve found on this issue.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Being as you got so much knowledge and experience.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It is simply a practical and effective one if your goal is the acquisition of new knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They served as a passage between Montaigne’s world, a world of belief and misplaced conviction, and our world, the world of reliable and effective knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus knowledge, in so far as we have it, is not absolute but progressive, not definitive but provisional. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I have already exited the stage. Now you must bear this news to him. Tell him that I had knowledge that could have aided his revenge, had he come sooner on the scene.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They must have some magical charm or hidden knowledge. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z For she knew, with a mother’s instinctive knowledge, that it was not the tiger she meant. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Because your knowledge ought not to just vanish,” Lyra said encouragingly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to make it clear to the other boys that we were adding to our body of knowledge even if all this rocket did was spew on its launchpad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was no wonder her knowledge was patchy. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge was still so new to her that it seemed secret. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He was trembling hard and feeling sick, because pressing at him was the knowledge that he’d killed someone, that he was a murderer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The modern idea of laws of nature is a by-product of Descartes’ philosophy, for Descartes was the first person to treat the laws of nature as being what knowledge of nature was all about. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How would the girl she was pretending to be have such knowledge? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In comparison to sixteenth-century philosophy, all our sciences are applied sciences, and all our scientific knowledge is robust enough to withstand real-world application, if only in the form of experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Soon I knew so much about the history of tennis that had the criteria for success in the game been knowledge of its history, I would certainly have been a superstar. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z What his knife and gun had once meant to him, his knowledge of having secretly murdered Mary now meant. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The proposed legislation, of which Walter had no prior knowledge, went nowhere. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But Henry’s got an entirely different compendium of knowledge. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “No, no, the serum doesn’t erase all of a person’s knowledge,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z My mother on the one side, illiterate but determined to have me drink, for better or for worse, from the well of knowledge. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But despite his mien of seriousness and inapproachability, Bronstein was friendly, animated, and liked by virtually all the other players, owing to his cordiality, immense knowledge of the game, and a certain intellectual eccentricity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were not in the least bit interested in teaching the masses of Jews, in communicating their knowledge and uplifting the people. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Yesterday, some of the neighbors stopped by wanting to know what Mama Ya-Ya was going to do, believing her special powers gave her special knowledge about the storm. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Williams was perhaps the greatest hitter of all time, a man revered for his knowledge and insight into the art of hitting. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was the essential precondition for the new era of intellectual revolution, for it is a necessary concept which any society that saw itself as improving knowledge would have to develop. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For a long time, I’ve wanted to record my own knowledge in it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z People didn’t get the news of the party—the knowledge of it just slowly grew up in them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I know as long as she’s assured I’m using my knowledge to serve them, I’m safe. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Why would I be—” The knowledge sweeps through me suddenly, and I shake my head—as if that will make a difference. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had a simpler nature; he looked up to Balthamos as to the fount of all knowledge and joy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Foragers knew the secrets of nature long before the Agricultural Revolution, since their survival depended on an intimate knowledge of the animals they hunted and the plants they gathered. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He, the old slave, showing a surprising knowledge of such matters—germology and scabology—ha! ha!—he called it, and what a youthful skill of the hands! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Enemy still lacks one thing to give him strength and knowledge to beat down all resistance, break the last defences, and cover all the lands in a second darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian’s declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Besides, she had a soft spot for anyone who was seeking knowledge—even about something as simple as Chinese handcuffs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I did not want to accept the knowledge of her words, but I did. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And then in the night he would be happy in the knowledge that the day had been a day of purpose. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She couldn’t do much about Oliver Payne’s knowledge of the program, but the special hardware was effectively demolished. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not quite know what to say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge; so they had to keep on neutral subjects. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Photography is a new art, and Vincent will never like photographs as much as paintings, but he wants to expand his knowledge of all art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At a time when medical knowledge and practice had changed little since medieval times, minie ball wounds were particularly life- threatening. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Though Nye planned to interview these relatives, and anyone else who might have knowledge of the suspect’s whereabouts, his main objective was to obtain the aid of the local law agencies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t play Trivial Pursuit, because I had no general knowledge of the world,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Which skill or scrap of knowledge would be called for? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The knowledge and contacts I had recently made in Africa were going to be locked away rather than used in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But others had a frightened knowledge buried deep behind their eye from the beginning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The latter was an unprecedented institution in the Greek world—a place devoted not only to the religious cult of the Muses, but to advancing human knowledge in the broadest sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It often came to her as a sweet shock, the knowledge that there were so many people in the world who felt exactly as she and Blaine did about Barack Obama. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Aristotelian science was not like this: Aristotelian philosophers had no sense that their knowledge was incomplete in important respects, and they thus had a different measure of success from a Galileo or a Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He confessed that he participated in Booth’s earlier scheme to kidnap the president, but he denied involvement in, or knowledge of, the assassination plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A man half in shadow, half in light, defying knowledge. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I have no memory at all of that summer’s day, no privileged knowledge of whether that child succeeded in getting the watermelon into her mouth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And the knowledge that we’ve given you better lives than you would have had otherwise.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z My knowledge of the original game’s mechanics, levels, and enemies would definitely come in handy, but the game play was going to be completely different, and it would require an entirely different set of skills. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The trip is unannounced, the boy’s small suitcase packed without his knowledge. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Will you have peace with me, and all the aid that my knowledge, founded in long years, can bring? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instead he had an overwhelming feeling of a kind of passion: for knowledge, for learning of all sorts—and for the children who sat that day at the small desks, as Gabe did. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In her bedroom, he would submit the full weight of his knowledge to healing her condition, knowing all the while that his success would only separate them forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z If Bobby took anything away from that match, it was the knowledge that the Soviet players were the best in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was having a great time, while I vacillated between fear and curiosity, between embarrassment and the knowledge that, like it or not, I was having my first sexual experience. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z My only comfort was the knowledge that I was not alone. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He sat there for a long time, running his fingers over the symbols, wishing his skin were porous enough to let all the knowledge and history of the world in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Sir Lawrence flatly denied prior knowledge of Francis’ efforts and was thoroughly insulted by the implication that he had underhandedly used another scientist’s ideas. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Styx might have all the big-city knowledge, but I knew all kinds of stuff about small, stupid plants. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It occurred to Winston that for the first time in his life he was looking, with knowledge, at a member of the Thought Police. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It is easy to think that new knowledge comes from new types of apparatus—Galileo’s telescope, Boyle’s air pump, Newton’s prism—not from new intellectual tools. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was my favorite shirt, the one from Thomas, with the famous “Imagination is more important than knowledge” quote printed on the back. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We may as well face up to it: there is a highly visible difference between the pace of basic science and the application of new knowledge to human problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not dared to rebel, he had gone back into the Red Room every holiday, feigning interest, acquiring knowledge, disguising his fear. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Yet, I am grateful for the little bit that I here add to the knowledge ofthe function of the human mind and ofthe laws governing the artificial increase of human intelligence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The old conviction that there was no new knowledge had momentarily resurfaced, only to sink almost without trace beneath the tide whose very existence it denied. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He listened, and in his face there was something gentle and Jewish, the knowledge of one who belongs to a race that is oppressed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The one gnarl of her childhood was the knowledge that, if she did not die of one of her diseases, she would eventually have to marry and go live with in-laws. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Too bad you didn’t have all this layup knowledge when you were trying out for the team, huh?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Most felt that the development of a US heavy-water reactor was a perfectly sound idea, given its potential to advance nuclear knowledge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Male, he presumed, though with the limited knowledge of the fairy anatomy he supposed it could be female. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Malachy is getting ready for Confirmation himself, always showing off his knowledge of the catechism, always going on about state of grace. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He was greatly hampered by his lack of book knowledge and of the knowledge of the meaning of characters written upon a paper with a camel’s hair brush and ink. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z And without the fact, the new notion that knowledge is grounded in evidence, not authority, might have received only the sort of inconsistent and unreliable endorsement that we have seen it receiving from della Porta. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was a piece of knowledge late to come and hard-won, and one I did not wish to forget. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z With the same diligence he’d brought to the task of soaking up chess knowledge, Bobby around this time started a relentless search for general knowledge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuller explained the auto had been used without his knowledge, but his enemies added this latest incident to their quiver despite the fact that Fuller was never charged with any crime. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I suffered the shock of knowledge that this plan was lodged within me and I was indeed going to carry it out. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z What Mother liked best about the hospital, although she didn’t tell Dad, was the knowledge that if she made any noise during the delivery, it didn’t matter. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z And the orator need know nothing of medicine himself, hmm? socrates: Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Nor should we forget the cruelty to animals who are used just so that we can satisfy our human desire for knowledge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Derek had decided he should be the one to go—even though he had little or no survival knowledge—because he was a psychologist and that was the aspect they wished to learn about. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z At another set of tables, the Erudite chatter over books and newspapers, in constant pursuit of knowledge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Without facts there can be no reliable knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Obviously we will destroy it. The only way to deprive the Erudite of power is to deprive them of knowledge.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Bad knowledge, at least temporarily, has driven out good. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What it comes down to is attitude and knowledge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Some of the marchers were angry that King had agreed to a token march without their knowledge. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Every letter I received from them added something to my knowledge of the teachings of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of not being separated from Rowan was tempered by the knowledge of whose hand they’d be under. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But, after Gilbert, work on the magnet failed to discover the regularities that make experimental knowledge possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the seasons went by, we grudgingly began to share our knowledge, our weapons, our secret places that were thick with wild plums or turkeys. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z "Yes. We were very tired," repeated Sam, "so we left early. Was it a good-" The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He waited to greet Eril-Fane—and tried hard to keep his new knowledge quiet in his eyes when he did. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Our tools for diminishing flight distance are the knowledge we have of an animal, the food and shelter we provide, the protection we afford. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Alvarez was using the word amateur in its traditional sense: someone who engaged in a pursuit not for money or fame but purely for the love of knowledge and the abstract quest for truth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The university will be more inclined to reward by pay or promotion him who makes some addition to knowledge of an immediately profitable kind rather than him who works for knowledge itself,” he said. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z His boat and his knowledge of the Potomac’s currents are vital to their escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “How could we find out about the law without Olaf’s knowledge?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He must have obtained this knowledge from some source. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After he welcomed me into the “true knowledge,” he gave me something to think about. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If the rat doesn’t get sick, then it knows it can eat the whole thing—a knowledge it retains for the rest of its life. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z With no knowledge of our plans for the day, I still decided to wear an outfit worthy of Mitra's coolness. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I do not want the knowledge of this evil!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z With my newfound knowledge of Haymitch’s and Finnick’s treatment, all I can think is: What did the Capitol do to her after she won? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But at least he was not alone now, and that knowledge was stronger than the uncertainty about what the woman might do or say to him. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z And that leads to another way to escape the curse of knowledge: show a draft to yourself, ideally after enough time has passed that the text is no longer familiar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We need to recover the skills and knowledge people used to have. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z On the one hand there was truth, on the other opinion; on the one hand there was knowledge, on the other experience; on the one hand there was proof, on the other persuasion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even the mere knowledge of this mark breeds fear. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "A man with your knowledge of English and of America in general does not come to Germany every day, and would be wanted in almost every department of the German government," said Kappe. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z This knowledge was heavy on the hearts of all the dwellers in Asgard, but it weighed heaviest on their chief and ruler, Odin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If one went slightly faster, one could even get back before the race and place a bet on it in the sure knowledge that one would win. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Experiments produce new knowledge, but if that knowledge does not circulate there is little opportunity for further progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And that knowledge is a flash of light I can’t quite see through. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I was surprised to discover Elnora’s deep knowledge of medicines and herbs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Among Violet’s many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z But he read the titles here and there, and knew that they contained all of the knowledge of centuries, and that one day they would belong to him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “I know you love animals, Jez, so you might not care for this bit of knowledge.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was hired for his knowledge of spices, and yet, to our great delight, it’s his sausage talents that have come in handy now. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And as knowledge of what could of happened hit me, I started shaking and crying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The two dæmons considered the strangeness of this knowledge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She would have to rely on her sharp memory, her knowledge of insects, and her detailed notes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “They could really use someone with your vast stores of knowledge.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The scholastic philosophy taught in the universities, based on Aristotle, was, Bacon insisted, caught up in a series of futile arguments which could never generate new knowledge of the sort he was looking for. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They would have learned that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, that they’d been taken, bought, sold, and used in research without her knowledge or theirs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Thus Gilbert made magnetic experiments relevant to a well-established branch of natural knowledge, astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Over years, I’d watched him inhale books, newspapers, and ideas, sparking to life anytime he spoke with someone who offered a shard of new experience or knowledge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they were over clear sky again, and she turned to her mother with a sudden mysterious air of secret knowledge. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z "Listen—" I'm about to lay some more knowledge on them, when the mob of reporters suddenly surges to my right. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Now they executed it with the knowledge that there was only one direction to move: forward. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Therefore we need only probe your knowledge and speed and stamina. We need no enemy for this. The enemy is always in the mind. Visualize him.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z "To my knowledge, no one has died in it." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z At the time, I had no knowledge of the grief process, clinical depression, or survivor’s guilt syndrome. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Guided more by her intuition than by her knowledge of things or by logic, Clara managed to reach her daughter’s school without mishap. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Brunelleschi would have had plenty of practice in applying this knowledge when he set out to measure the height of surviving classical buildings in Rome in 1402-4. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s the meanwhile frightens me, sir. The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Alexandrian Library is where we humans first collected, seriously and systematically, the knowledge of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer: knowledge of natural processes based on evidence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He checked himself in time to turn the nod into a bow of respect, then fled, leaving the scene of his failure but not the knowledge of it. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z With stunning skill and knowledge, they answered questions far above their grade level to defeat seven other teams.’” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But to be hungry and know there was some food, no matter how little, made the knowledge almost a form of torture, a teasing torture. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew nothing of Freud and her scanty knowledge of sex did not include any of its deviations. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason, knowledge of a solid called the dodecahedron having twelve pentagons as sides seemed to them dangerous. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s said that Caesar is in a fearful rage,” said the young tutor, eager to share his inside knowledge. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet it was not the Greek number system that prevented zero’s acceptance—nor was it lack of knowledge. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My increased knowledge led to enriched, stimulating, give-and-take engagement with art. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z “And now you use that knowledge to help the emperor?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Their conceptual apparatus is Aristotelian, and they seek to address a gap or anomaly in the Aristotelian scheme of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What she could possibly do with her knowledge of the intake valve, the Phillips screwdriver, the temperature cutoff, the ground wire, she did not know. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was hard for teachers not to feel depressed by the lack of rudimentary knowledge, like in the history class in which students were asked to name the president after John F. Kennedy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The task, in other words, is to understand how reliable knowledge and scientific progress can and do result from a flawed, profoundly contingent, culturally relative, all-too-human process. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They formed a group that was prepared to receive the millennial knowledge Nicolas had acquired in the East. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “She wanted us to return it to you, because...well, she must’ve known you had some knowledge that would help us get through the House of Hades in Epirus.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Apparently Day has some detailed knowledge of how government uniforms look. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z It is a standard ploy of opponents of relativism to argue that we all share certain commonsensical capacities for reasoning, and thus we can all recognize better knowledge when we see it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That knowledge had slid into him that afternoon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The maiden, who was named Medea, knew how to work very powerful magic, and could undoubtedly save the Argonauts if she would use her dark knowledge for them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What made Kate so effective was the fact that she had either learned it or had been born with the knowledge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The unhappiness produced by the knowledge of that engagement had been a little put aside by Elizabeth Martin’s calling at Mrs. Goddard’s a few days afterwards. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z It’s clear to him that the invaders possess “scientific knowledge far in advance of our own.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z There were powerful elements of scientific adventure and the zest for discovery of new lands, new plants and animals, new people; the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She grows to love him, despite what her family might think—for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z This knowledge, like so much of my self-knowledge, had come to me in the voice of people I knew, people I loved. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The central task of such an epistemology is not to explain why we have been successful in our pursuit of scientific knowledge; there is no good answer to that question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All these late-medieval discussions took place within the context of a geographical knowledge which corresponded to that of the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nor do I believe that management rules by divine right or the undiluted force of superior knowledge, as the “surveys” demand you acknowledge. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The nine men spent then- time doing experiments that increased our knowledge of the sun, the surface of the earth, and the human body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We were sobered by the knowledge that the world would never be the same,” he said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But since 1572 the world has been caught up in a vast Scientific Revolution that has transformed the nature of knowledge and the capacities of humankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I walk with purpose and with the knowledge that if this room was packed, every eye would be on me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I am tormented by the knowledge of how much my family is willing to sacrifice for each other. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the tree of life,” Yossarian answered, waggling his toes, “and of knowledge of good and evil, too.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He rubbed Mimir’s head with certain herbs to prevent it from rotting, and he chanted charms and incantations over it, for he did not wish Mimir’s knowledge to be lost. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z A child’s endless energy and my own insatiable lust for knowledge made the following year one of the happiest times I can remember. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But in general she preferred to assume that her children were smart enough to make their own decisions, that the school had armed them well with knowledge. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And Fred wanted Gold to start recruiting other spies with technical knowledge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were to materialize in our midst today, those among us without true knowledge of our religion would rush to authenticate them as exemplary Muslims, based on their appearance. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Keep in mind that while we may seem like bottomless fonts of knowledge,” said Birdie with a wry smile, “even Mae and I have our limitations.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “Material profit. Increase of knowledge. The augmentation of the complexity and intensity of the field of intelligent life. The enrichment of harmony and the greater glory of God. Curiosity. Adventure. Delight.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He calmed himself with the knowledge that if lighting struck, the tower’s steel frame would most likely conduct the electricity harmlessly into the ground. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave herself over to this new knowledge: no one had died tonight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He was also equipped with a compass, a telescope, and several strange maps that he had traced himself based on various theories of Leonardo da Vinci and on the polar knowledge of the Incas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The true knowledge,” reconstructed much more briefly than I received it, was that history had been “whitened” in the white man’s history books, and that the black man had been “brainwashed for hundreds of years.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The success of a scientific research programme thus depends not on its ability to generate new knowledge but on its ability to mobilize the support of a community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If only, too, Angeline didn’t have such quick ears and sure knowledge of her whereabouts at all times. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Then there is the issue of social networks and support, the differences in the knowledge, time, and attention that a person’s family and friends are in a position to offer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There was happiness in his father’s heart because of his son who was intelligent and thirsty for knowledge; he saw him growing up to be a great learned man, a priest, a prince among Brahmins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wouldn’t erasing their memories also erase all of their knowledge? Thus rendering them useless? ” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Theon walked back the way he had come, searching their faces for the least sign of guilty knowledge. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The “province of knowledge” that Galton felt particularly inclined to explore was heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If we compare our system of knowledge with theirs then theirs is evidently the poorer one by far. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Another piece of hard-won knowledge I did not care to forget, lest it be impressed upon me again, more forcefully and more permanently. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Burkhart never admitted having any knowledge that Mollie was being poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Where were the lighthouses to guide my newly built ship of knowledge just setting sail on a perilous journey upon a vast, turbulent and unknown ocean of life? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The new knowledge thus represented the triumph of experience over theory and learning, and was celebrated as such. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Such an approach implies that the sort of knowledge obtained by experiment need not be a reliable guide to how nature works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul The mother seemed puzzled and afraid. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The alchemists had pursued a secret learning, convinced that only a few were fit to have knowledge of divine secrets and that the social order would collapse if gold ceased to be in short supply. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But what consolation can that fact bring against the knowledge that my mother and father have never heard of Garcia Lorca or Garcia Marquez? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perry was a likable kid, well liked around the neighborhood—he never done one thing out of the way to my knowledge.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She hands it to me, and meeting her eyes, I know the knowledge is locked within her, that she has not told anyone. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And apologize for blackmailing her with knowledge she trusted me to keep secret. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “She said that the tyke seemed to have knowledges.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fluent in the knowledge of foreign things, especially of American things. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It requires no language skills or specific body of acquired knowledge. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z At first all his pleasure in the art-magic was, childlike, the power it gave him over bird and beast, and the knowledge of these. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He claimed no knowledge of how he had gotten where he was. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z If the philosopher deals with knowledge, the rhetorician is much more interested in belief. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A few minutes’ research in any supermarket is enough to alarm the most stouthearted customer — provided, that is, he has even a rudimentary knowledge of the chemicals presented for his choice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Using his knowledge of the ways from the First World to hide himself, he folded a nearby shadow like a blanket and draped it over his furry body. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Asked if he had been brushing up on his German, Ebright shot back, “I don’t expect to have to have any knowledge of the language.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I left the relief station with the promise that food would be sent to me, but I also left with a knowledge that the relief officials had not wanted to give to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a syntactic version of the curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But at least in experimental markets, sellers don’t take full advantage of their private knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I found it fascinating, a lot more substantial and scientific than Freud had been, and a lot more fruitful in terms of expanding testable knowledge on how human beings thought and learned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z My ancestor, and this is the inheritance she passed to me: freedom from the factions, and the knowledge that my Divergent identity is more important than I could have known. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He knew that you were showing off your knowledge of these words, which were to him a business. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Odin took Mimir’s head back to the well beneath the world-tree, and he placed it there, beside his eye, in the waters of knowledge of the future and of the past. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z I noticed he had a bit of a limp, although the accident had not, to my knowledge, hurt his legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the Scientific Revolution, we have a much more reliable type of knowledge than ancient and medieval philosophers ever had, and we call it science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their battle will be waged not against the Erudite- Dauntless army but against Erudite innocents and the knowledge they have worked so hard to acquire.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But like so many things, once we had possession of infinite knowledge, it suddenly seemed less important. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Most important, he has knowledge of the cameras. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Before Columbus the primary objective of Renaissance intellectuals was to recover the lost culture of the past, not to establish new knowledge of their own. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And she had let him in for this fight without his knowledge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The coed dorms unsettled her, all the men in their skivvies, the girls in their robes, the knowledge that at any moment a boy might saunter into her room—or worse, the bathroom. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He knew it himself—the top drawer had been invented by Mordred—and the knowledge did not make him happy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We will have the will and the resources and the technical knowledge to go to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I never did feel it again, for I never stole again; and what kept me from it was the knowledge that, for me, crime carried its own punishment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Their emotional certainty seemed buttressed by access to a fund of knowledge denied to ordinary men, but a day’s observation of their activities was sufficient to reveal all their thought processes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps its knowledge and wisdom kept it separate, like a shaman living on the edge of a llaqta, feared by the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “I want all possible knowledge of the enemy strength. Ride forward yourself and observe. And be careful.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge that we had the power to upset that goddess made us look at each other conspiratorially and smile. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Peace came to the mothers, with the knowledge that at last their children’s spirits were at rest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The ubiquitous experience shown in this New Yorker cartoon is a familiar example: Anyone who wants to lift the curse of knowledge must first appreciate what a devilish curse it is. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z All around him, men were redefining themselves for the new world, and a vast pool of knowledge and tradition was evaporating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what makes these thoughts all the more disturbing is the knowledge that our fate could perhaps be sealed twenty or more years before the development of symptoms.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At that moment he was like a child astonished at the fullness of knowledge and learning which unfolded itself before his eyes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z One day we may discover that some of our most cherished forms of knowledge are as obsolete as epicycles, phlogiston, caloric, the electromagnetic aether and, indeed, Newtonian physics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A computer who could process data on the spot and understand how to interpret it was more valuable to the team than a pool computer with more general knowledge. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And maybe the knowledge that she was playing him broke his heart as well as his mind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Alongside this new framework, the printing press was transforming the nature of intellectual communities, the knowledge they could exchange, and the attitude to authority and to evidence that came naturally to them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The knowledge and the awe made him savage. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z As far as he was concerned, there were only two sources of knowledge: reason on the one hand, and on the other sense experience, memory and testimony, all of which established matters of fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was still blinking away the afterimage of Rasalas’s gleaming teeth, and the knowledge that it was all her fault. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, watch out for everyone, because the place feeds on gossip and whatever you say will be public knowledge in a matter of hours. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then demand if Sheba’s queen E’er can banish from her thought All the splendour she has seen, All the knowledge thou hast taught? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Instead it is his knowledge that apart from their affluence, Gerald and Lydia are secure in a way his parents will never be. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z With Muller’s discovery a vast new field of scientific and medical knowledge was opened up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Students were picked up who to my knowledge had never done anything subversive except call for an end to Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z People who think they are Native American but but have not grown up in a Native community may lack tribally specific knowledge and are vulnerable to stereotypes and other misconceptions about being Native. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She uncrossed her arms slowly, trying on this new knowledge, testing it against her sense of things. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Happy after all these years to discover someone interested in his work, the priest had no misgivings about revealing his vast knowledge. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle believed that knowledge, including natural philosophy, should be fundamentally deductive in character. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So when, in 1651, Pascal drafted an introduction to his unfinished treatise on the vacuum he started by distinguishing two sources of knowledge: reason and authority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Alys was troubled by this, for she knew by now that the girl was clever, and filled with knowledge of many things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’ve never failed an exam in my life. But they weren’t testing actual knowledge, they were testing our ability to answer tricky multiple-choice questions that have nothing to do with real medical knowledge.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Privately held knowledge is not really scientific knowledge at all because it has not survived the test of peer review. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Like the realists, we must insist that it is not so difficult to tell good science from bad, as long as you agree that knowledge should be carefully and systematically tested against experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Prior to the adoption of this policy, it was generally understood that a tenant could not be evicted unless he or she had some knowledge of or participation in alleged criminal activity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer’s removal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Or would it bear witness again as we destroyed ourselves, leaving nothing behind but a living cloud of our knowledge, accomplishments, and so-called wisdom? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The plan had been drafted in my absence so I had very litde knowledge of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was the protector of the books and the knowledge, He was the scholar/librarian. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The word Maven comes from the Yiddish, and it means one who accumulates knowledge. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if the knowledge I sought would destroy me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I scoffed at this, suspecting the writer had no knowledge of women and even less liking for them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She made lists of questions for me and printed articles about research done on people without their knowledge or consent—from a vaccine trial in Uganda to the testing of drugs on U.S. troops. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In this realm his knowledge was so vast that the doctor from the nuns’ hospital used to come and ask his advice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the knowledge that none of our choices mattered, that all our pain and all our suffering would end with the world, and we’d be free of those burdens. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Hence writing brings power to modern societies, by making it possible to transmit knowledge with far greater accuracy and in far greater quantity and detail, from more distant lands and more remote times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no set itinerary that is public knowledge. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Only their granddaughters can save them, guard their knowledge like the first fire. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z So the whole notion of replication, in the view of those who argue in this way, is misleading, and there is nothing transparent about experimental knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was bait for a trap set without my knowledge. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I never make snap judgments, ” said Justice Holmes. knowledge. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their already substantial computer knowledge was growing daily—they were keeping pace with every advance or evolution of the Net and the Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt that there was something missing, some road which, if he had once found it, would have led him to a sure and quiet knowledge. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Since then, the claims of the postmodernists notwithstanding, we have learnt to develop reliable knowledge, even though we as human beings have continued to be as fallible as ever. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The real value-added knowledge work happens in the next five minutes. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z More than eggs, more than knowledge, more than anything this was food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It is important to learn and know this history, but many people today lack that knowledge and understanding because of the way America’s story has been taught. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z An archaic sociologist living 20,000 years ago, who had no knowledge of events following the Agricultural Revolution, might well have concluded that mythology had a fairly limited scope. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were just skimming the pages. No way could you retain any knowledge.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Alex feels somewhere, under the fifty layers of booze, something crystal clear radiating off her, a shared knowledge of how rare and wonderful this version of Henry is. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z This knowledge is nothing specific that I can describe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z To my knowledge Bailey’s name hadn’t been mentioned for hours, but we all knew whom he meant. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the curse of knowledge ensures that most writers will overestimate how standard a term has become and how wide the community is that has learned it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Journeys of discovery require more than just a working maritime knowledge,” the captain lectures. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Harker groaned and said, “And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The answer may seem obvious: Diderot is writing about the transformation in knowledge that we now call the Scientific Revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By comparing our knowledge with theirs, we would grow immeasurably. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Our heads were filled with rules and anecdotes, but we lacked any real knowledge of how to perform the job that was ours as of today. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z As September turned to October and October to November, through all those days, Alyce grew in knowledge and skills. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Certain and unwanted knowledge blooms in my mind. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge is a demon gnawing insatiably at my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Its essence lies in the principle of symmetry: the same sorts of explanation must, according to this principle, be given for all types of knowledge claims, whether they are successful or not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “In fact, I was horrified. It seemed as if the whole endeavor was founded on possibilities rather than probabilities. Of theory there was a great deal, of proven knowledge not much.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I don’t understand, but when she trembles and rises to my touch I realize what she’s showing me and want to cry with joy at the knowledge of it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “I have, perhaps, something to contribute to your store of knowledge,” said Poirot. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was challenging, and my storehouse of general knowledge made it easy for me to talk about almost anything. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Cabot Searcy, having been raised in a Southern Baptist church in Georgia, had little knowledge of this text before this first encounter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z And if the knowledge of love could change her, would it not also change Sidhean? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Courts have not been forgiving of women in these circumstances, frequently concluding that “the nature and circumstances of the marital relationship may give rise to an inference of knowledge by the spouse claiming innocent ownership.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Night of Joy had the bird trade in the bag, and Lana’s peculiar knowledge of one aspect of humanity told her that the bird trade might indeed be very large. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a play on words. ‘Knows’ with a ‘K,’ knowledge, Erudite . . . get it? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It's easy enough to find directions on a map, but I had very little knowledge of directions when I was smack in the middle of somewhere. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Whether there is some transmission of knowledge through the ether, or whether physiognomy and expression have some linguistic virtue so subtle that we do not remark its operation, the eyes may indeed speak. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was for the public and it was filled with knowledge. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I would never share that knowledge with him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She had fallen into a kitchen chair and she looked down at her hands, scratched and bleeding and shaking without her knowledge. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Second, if they do know their local plants and animals, do they exploit that knowledge to domesticate the most useful available species, or do cultural factors keep them from doing so? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He dropped from the final rocks onto the snowy path at the base, howling in agony and with a knowledge of failure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Emenike was one of the few people for whom “to read” did not mean “to study,” and so they would spend hours talking about books, bartering knowledge for knowledge, and playing Scrabble. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And even without Daisy and Hamilton and Karl Marx and William and Portia he could sit by the stove alone and take joy from this knowledge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Was it just the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Yet when school let out that first day I ran joyously home with a brain burdened with racy and daring knowledge, but not a single idea from books. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The frontispiece to that book shows Euclid controlling the gate which leads not only to knowledge of ballistics but to all philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Having direct knowledge of the Lyceum, he probably helped design arrangements in the Museum; he is credited with urging Ptolemy I to purchase and/or copy books in vast numbers for the Library. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge that he was always begging Dumbledore to let him suspend students by their ankles from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “All he ever seemed to want was knowledge—numbers to crunch, history to learn, information to file away and use later....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Tightening the irony into a knot was the knowledge that my parents were always behind me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of Merton’s fundamental claims about science is that scientific knowledge is public knowledge—knowledge that has been made available for others to question, test and dispute. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One line was underscored several times: “The knowledge will change him.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z History, government, religion, politics, and current events became his greatest interests, and during the thirty-three-year interval from his first Reykjavik stay to his second he spent most of his spare time reading and amassing knowledge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She’s cautioning him about what he’s going to do with the knowledge, not the actual mushrooms. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Newspapers and books spread knowledge, but require that trees be chopped down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And, if Maxim was not with me, the hearing of them would be a furtive, rather painful pleasure, guilty knowledge learnt in the dark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was recognized as a form of knowledge, but only at the margins. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The wild oats had headed out barely six inches above the ground, as though with knowledge that if they didn’t make seed quickly they wouldn’t get to seed at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I suppose she used her knowledge of the most secret side of the men in power to return the fifty pesos I once lent her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t judge the extent of his knowledge in a field with which I am unacquainted.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A person's knowledge, skills, and competence were unimportant. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I owed much of my newfound self-confidence and knowledge, both on and off the fencing strip, to Akhi. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They called each other wisdom as well, which Tyrion found almost as annoying as their custom of hinting at the vast secret stores of knowledge that they wanted him to think they possessed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These birds fly back and forth across the world, seeking news and bringing Odin all the knowledge of things. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z To my certain knowledge, many people conceal experiences for fear of ridicule. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Listening to her testify that morning he’d been keenly aware of his private knowledge of this woman: he’d understood what each expression suggested, what each pause signified. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z With my knowledge of arithmetic, I became the household accountant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t know what a communist is? Such a simple thing. Everyone knows. It’s common knowledge. You don’t... Bah. I don’t know why I’m surprised.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z That’s when I realized that there are two kinds of knowledge: shallow and deep. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When I tell people the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, their first question is usually Wasn’t it illegal for doctors to take Henrietta’s cells without her knowledge? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This was a small but handy nut of knowledge, and I stored it away for future use. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When at last they felt that the time had come to depart she used her magical knowledge for them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z There was knowledge in his expression, and enjoyment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He said that 360 degrees represented “the sum total of knowledge.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not understand how the knowledge had come to her. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had traveled in Egypt and was conversant with the knowledge of Babylon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But my knowledge was that I could go from room to room all day long and never catch up with her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “It’s my parents. They skipped the lullabies and started us with the Beatles, and then worked their way up to Nirvana, which is where their extensive knowledge of music comes to a screeching halt.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It is possible, however, that the tradition was wrong not simply about the methods by which knowledge was obtained but about the nature of knowledge itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I duly inspect Sister Lucia’s urine, though little knowledge can be gained from it, and pronounce her fit. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In his bones, he knew that she would never speak of it to anyone, that she would never use this knowledge against him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When you are organized to apply knowledge, set up targets, produce a usable product, you require a high degree of certainty from the outset. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I supposed that he thought before that I was not only ugly but old too, and that now the knowledge that I was probably unused attracted him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It transforms science from knowledge of the truth, regarded as indisputable, into a form of progressive knowledge in which established truths may always be disputed and in which an ultimate truth is never attained. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Second, this community of experts must have a shared base of knowledge which enables them to establish whether a result is not only right but also new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Without Lawrence, there would be no Rad Lab—none of the teamwork that combined the disparate knowledge and skills of physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians, and engineers into a new paradigm of science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "You fool. This is the Book of Fortune. It holds all the knowledge of the world — the past, present, and future." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She scooted forward and leaned in like she was about to give Virgil the most valuable piece of knowledge in the history of information. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The knowledge that for the game to end, one of them will have to die, or the possibility that she means nothing to him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Only fear of discovery and the knowledge that we did not belong kept us from loitering. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Esoteric knowledge was replaced by a new form of knowledge which depended both on publication and on public or semi-public performance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This he did without knowledge of the Archmage, and unwisely, yet he meant no harm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He had a knowledge of crops and seasons, born of experience; but where crops thrived under Nathan’s hand, under Selvam’s they wilted. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The lists of plants, the many characteristics of each, the details of the dyeing procedures, so much complex knowledge; all of it was clear and complete. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not certain whether it was the food or the rose that made me have a quick recovery from my cold, or just the knowledge that someone cared,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wanted to keep it from Jane’s knowledge; but, unluckily, I had mentioned it before I was aware.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z In part this new skepticism reflected the superior technical knowledge of his official overseers, who now included trained physicists with knowledge of nuclear physics that equaled or even exceeded his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z To distinguish so sharply between public and private knowledge may seem to diminish the achievements of those who make discoveries but never publish them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Hobbes and Wittgenstein, they want to argue, grasped that a form of knowledge implies a form of social order and vice versa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The garrulous ferret showed the rats that he possessed a sound knowledge of the principles of fulcrum and leverage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Delighted with the plan, Constance shared her knowledge with only one other creature, the solitary beaver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z This knowledge whizzed through my mind, and then Father Mike pulled me up again—“and of the Holy Spirit, Amen . . .” One more dunking to go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She even understands—more terrible, no doubt, than all the rest—old Hrothgar’s knowledge that peace must be searched through ordeal upon ordeal, with no final prospect but failure. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps no organization on earth, save the Communist party, possessed so detailed a knowledge of how workers lived, for its sources of information stemmed directly from the workers themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mother always says that knowledge is power. I’m just trying to make us more powerful.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z From there, Booth began adding others, selecting them based on expertise with weapons, physical fitness, and knowledge of southern Maryland’s back roads and waterways. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Still, many experts have concluded that Garfield's wound was not necessarily fatal, even given the limits of 1881 medical technology and knowledge. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We questioned a number of people we felt might have some knowledge of the crime. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way, I hope to spread among others the gifts lavished upon me for my pains in the College of Lucidity; to loose knowledge from its corral and allow it free pasturage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Despite European guns, the Indians’ greater numbers, entrenched positions, knowledge of the terrain, and superb archery made them formidable adversaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His long experience of defeat and his knowledge of the people allowed the Candidate to realize before anyone else that this time he was going to win. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some dark knowledge haunts my men, something they aren't willing to tell me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He does not make it,” said I, “and has never made it, and has no knowledge or belief that his daughter is in existence.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Desdemona came into a physical knowledge of these women, shared their pains and sighs, their fear and protectiveness, their outrage, their expectation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had her best friend at her side, a slightly deranged pigeon, and the Otherworld’s knowledge to guide her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Then you must surely know much about this Wood that I—that we do not. Will you look at our maps and share your knowledge about the land here?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And there is really no way out of this, at the present state of knowledge. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That be the knowledge. I got it for the colors but never for the threads. My hands was always too coarse.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I've got a feeling he must share some of Rue's knowledge on how to feed yourself from the earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Wallace had no knowledge this was happening; he was too far away, in Ternate, Indonesia, for them to let him know in time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not yet learned to feign knowledge that I did not possess, and as I had only a vague idea what a B.A. was, I questioned Mathona. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His faith was no longer a faith, he said, but a perfect knowledge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z European knowledge of Mount Everest depends on a long history of discovery, exploration, surveying and cartography. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The conversations no longer ended in reassuring laughter, and the living room often seemed clouded with uncertainties, with unfinished knowledge, as if they all knew something would happen and yet did not know what. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The idea was that my measurements could increase the accuracy of our knowledge of the height of the terrain Neil and Buzz would be flying over in their descent to a landing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I exaggerate, perhaps. The American, Hardman, and the German maid—yes, they have added something to our knowledge. That is to say, they have made the whole business more unintelligible than it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Cowboy was haunted by the knowledge of what Ernest had done, he adored Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Were you more aware, you would know or realize by now that the offending trousers were dispatched to you with our full knowledge that they were inadequate so far as length was concerned. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like their confreres elsewhere in the Americas, Indian societies had built up a remarkable body of knowledge about how to manage and improve their environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to look like you did just now. You had a twist to your mouth and a flash of knowledge in your eyes. Not the right sort of knowledge.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “At least, to the best of my knowledge . . . real.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Thus, there is no evidence that the earliest Chinese scribes could have had knowledge of any other writing system to inspire them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Reports from agents and informants like Morrison suggested that several of these desperadoes had knowledge about the murders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Why didn't he just tell me what it was all about instead of trying to impress me with his knowledge? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Aristotelian philosophers thought that all true knowledge could be expressed in syllogistic form, arguing from indisputable premises to undeniable conclusions, all based on Evidence-Perspicuity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Do you not see that your conspiracy is already arrested and rendered powerless by the knowledge which everyone here possesses of it? Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A strong feeling reaches out in front of me and drags with it a knowledge that I have to go in order. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z And in fact, over thousands of years, people in every corner of the globe built a large body of food knowledge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Once I had devoured the vast Herball, I hungered for more than the knowledge of common things that grew beneath me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Relations of ideas are purely logical; our knowledge of contingent matters, of matters of fact, depends on evidence: testimony, experience, documents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her mother, though her fingers had not had the almost-magical knowledge that Kira’s had, would have been more experienced, more deft, and faster. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And who had more knowledge than the jinn, the oldest creatures of the earth? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They, like most tissue- rights activists, are less concerned about personal profits than about making sure the knowledge scientists gain by studying tissues is available to the public, and to other researchers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z From my studies at Fort Hare, I had a little knowledge of law and I put it to use. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If a pilot were ever taken prisoner, his captors could use the knowledge that he was married to torment him by inventing stories about his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The other, related question is whether ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers similarly put their ethnobiological knowledge to good use in selecting wild plants to gather and eventually to cultivate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By Renaissance times, rhetoric had become so centrally embedded in the culture as a habit of mind that it shaped the way all knowledge was approached. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was this kind of knowledge that led my father to trust what Uncle Pete said when it came to the reproductive timetable. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Had he somehow accidentally ingested knowledge last night at the hotel? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The mentors would share their wisdom that comes with age and experience and we would share our knowledge about diversity to help make them better teachers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A rival possibility is that such knowledge may simply be beyond us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Many bug boys were sold without their knowledge. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything—all the knowledge in the world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There appeared to be reason for supposing that the drowned informer had hoped for a reward out of this forfeiture, and had obtained some accurate knowledge of Magwitch’s affairs. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Watching him disappear into the red curtain, Bridge was struck by the knowledge that Sherm was the main thing she looked forward to every day. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And, since no one bothered to explain otherwise, he regarded the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste of time of all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He knew she meant it—not just in the moment, but forever—and if the next scythe did come for him, she would relish the knowledge of his death. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The knowledge of it was as clear as if she could see the thing, but when she squinted her eyes into the dim, soaking suburban streets, there was nothing there. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “You must be mistaken. He’s a good Muslim boy. He comes without fail to Friday prayer, and his knowledge of the Holy Qur’an is coming along nicely.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He shrugged, “I suppose that forms some of the basis for resentment toward them on the part of the technicians here. The robots are perhaps too willing to impress you with their greater knowledge.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In contrast, the ‘maker’s knowledge’ principle implies that if I do make a vacuum in a laboratory then I have a real understanding of what it is that I have made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He would watch and know precisely when a ewe was starting labor—had a wonderful knowledge of sheep—but could barely move. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And it wasn't for the simple accumulation of knowledge, but with the goal of one day...circumventing impossibility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Later, those few times they talked about what had happened, she said at least they’d been spared that knowledge. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z All the adults I knew buried the knowledge beneath lying smiles and hugs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Pascal went further than simply insisting on the authority of experience; he argued that our knowledge of nature is capable of endless progress because it is founded in experience, and experience accumulates over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Luckily, Chen had a rough knowledge of Cantonese, enough to help with the problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Of that legendary library, the most that survives today is a dank and forgotten cellar of the Sera- peum, the library annex, once a temple and later reconsecrated to knowledge. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So we might want to claim that it is the book—or rather, in this case, the well-stocked library—that transforms the status of experiment; by crystallizing past knowledge, the library makes new knowledge possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the darkness came the window became a mirror in which I could watch my host and his guests without their knowledge. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Heqet would now be far ahead of him in knowledge and skill, and needed nothing he could offer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I don’t claim that idea was consistent or coherent; I claim that it was successful, that it provided a template for the discovery of new knowledge and new technologies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “And because my mind is sharpening day by day, I was going to ask if Epsilon-5 could accompany me to the surface tomorrow. We make a good team. My knowledge, combined with his experience.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t like telling him this before I ask him to do what I need, but there’s little he can do with the knowledge. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I’ll kill myself if the Republic strikes you down for reacting to knowledge that I gave you. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The knowledge that the gathering was safely round the corner came to Hazel in the form of a recollection of Silver’s head and paws breaking through gravel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Language Arts 3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when speaking, reading, or listening. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I dared not move lest I betray my knowledge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was the only thing the women held in common—the sure knowledge of the pain of giving birth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked the campus, grave with knowledge, the Gothic buildings with their vine-laced walls, and the way everything transformed, in the half-light of night, into a ghostly scene. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus may have been one of the first, but he was not the last, to see in the mathematical sciences a new type of reliable knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public; he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the end, all systems of knowledge require one to put one’s trust in someone, something or some procedure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Your friend here is a regular fountain of knowledge.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z This knowledge provoked another fit of coughing in Sarah Ruth, and she hunched over again. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z “I have not seen anyone for a long time with a greater store of accurate knowledge,” he wrote to Mary. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Other humans, having no knowledge of the presence of androids among them, had to be protected at all costs—even that of losing the quarry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The printing press not only transformed the dissemination of knowledge but also, by making exact visual information widely available, brought about a revision in the traditional conception of what knowledge is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At any rate, the film project never happened, at least not to my knowledge. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z As long as she looked away, and listened, she could pretend that my closeness, my arms around her, were without her knowledge or consent. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z And her knowledge of binding a malevolent being to the earth was entirely theoretical; she had never before encountered such a creature. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When they do finally pull apart, it’s with a new knowledge. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Eager to share his knowledge on any subject, he neglected to ascertain the interest of his listener or, in my case, reader. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z This knowledge that Muslims had helped Europe to get on its feet. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Technological advance required the freest possible pursuit of knowledge, so Holland became the leading publisher and bookseller in Europe, translating works written in other languages and permitting the publication of works proscribed elsewhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Collecting natural wonders became a mark of wealth, knowledge, and good taste. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man’s possible knowledge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The hit echoed in my gut—along with the horrible knowledge that everything was about to get worse. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z But let her be spared the knowledge that will come in time. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Bacon was the first person to try to systematize the idea of a knowledge that would make constant progress. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my Communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of Marxist philosophy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The questions are posed to the Contestant, and after the quiz is over, both parties are asked to estimate the level of general knowledge of the other. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I watched and listened to the two of them, it was clear she had more knowledge of Bear and his business than I. It gave me a jealous pang. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then, with a sudden glow of satisfaction of having gained a little more knowledge about the world in which I lived, I’d end up by saying: “That’s Bigger. That’s the Bigger Thomas reaction.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to relish her company and even to enjoy her country ways and lack of knowledge about city things. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma’s first resolution was to keep her father from the knowledge of what had passed,—aware of the anxiety and alarm it would occasion: but she soon felt that concealment must be impossible. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z What of his knowledge of the world and of life could be useful to her? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see it, of course, though later he said he had felt it come forward, had perceived it with the kind of knowledge that had made the people designate Seer as his true name. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And the knowledge came that the three of them were actually running things and I was just along for the wonderful ride. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There had been earlier attempts to build communities whose goal was to advance knowledge: sixteenth-century doctors, for example, had formed networks and had published the resulting correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And there were the timid children of the neighbors, boys and girls to whom my brother and I felt superior in worldly knowledge. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They felt the same fear because they had the same knowledge: people could die in water. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I hoped his affection for Otto could save me, that my knowledge could make me useful. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The passage can be cryptic, abstruse, arcane; these are symptoms of the curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Who knows, maybe they had failed to discover the secret of the Master Work—the Philosopher’s Stone—and for this reason kept their knowledge to themselves. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of their original home the Hobbits in Bilbo’s time preserved no knowledge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He chose instead to make a secret of his dark knowledge and express his rage obliquely, in silence and sullen withdrawal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I peddled faster, trying to drive out the knowledge that I was disobeying my father. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It had three eyes, and the third eye was full of a terrible knowledge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Even in democracies today, crucial knowledge is available to only a few individuals, who control the flow of information to the rest of the government and consequently control decisions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her practical knowledge and skills were found to be normal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My perimeter checks knowledge of medical-speak that got us out of the hospital. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Even with the knowledge that it's dark outside and light up here, it's hard to believe that he can see us. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The word ‘science’ comes from the Latin scientia, which means ‘knowledge’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Whatever narcotic was administered to him must have been done so without his knowledge. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Locke doubted whether our sensory capacities were sufficient to allow us to develop an adequate knowledge of corporeal substances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some show a shrewd knowledge of human nature:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The goal of his philosophy is to make new discoveries, not to patch and mend an existing body of knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The knowledge had revived her like a watered flower too long left unwatered. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z First up for me is supernatural world knowledge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They seem, that is, to feel that traditional philosophy of science was correct in its understanding of what knowledge must be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Balance was the sixth sense, which she won when she first learned to walk, and now she has the seventh one—knowledge of the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain coiled around the knowledge: The boy in the hoodie has been shot. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “I believe,” he went on, trembling, “that they are much closer to finding out exactly where the child is. They have other sources of knowledge forbidden to me.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But most of the wrenching guilt I now felt had to do with Mrs. Gilmore, and the knowledge that my actions had gotten her killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This wasn’t a test of knowledge at all—it was a puzzle! The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z There is the same shame, the sick feeling in my body, the same knowledge of my own wrongness, awkwardness, weakness; the same wish to be loved; the same loneliness; the same fear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With the knowledge that his old passport was good until 2007, he then flew “home” to Tokyo. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had the knowledge that she was small but she lacked the courage to be otherwise. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Laurelindórenan it was named of old, but long now it has lain beyond the knowledge of Men,’ he added softly, regarding Frodo with a new wonder in his eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her heart ached with the knowledge that every time it beat, it was counting away another second to her leaving and not seeing him anymore. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z For now, all we have to worry about is a three-hundred-word essay from the point of view of one of these prisoners exploring the realm of belief versus the realm of knowledge. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Since it’s his weapon and the rest of us have to defer to his knowledge so entirely, there’s the odd feeling of being let out of school early. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s because the links connected to any idea in our web of knowledge run upwards, downwards, and sideways to other ideas, often spanning long distances. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z From the books I read, my knowledge of love was vast, but my experience of it was naught. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Finally, there must be a mechanism for publicizing one’s knowledge—Cardano, for example, publishes a book. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The story of the fact is a story in which the lowest and most unreliable form of knowledge was magically transformed into the highest and most reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What has kept Whitiker going is the knowledge that there are certain things no one can ever take away, that certain pieces of paper really do matter. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Scythes were charged with five gleanings per week, and to the best of his knowledge, these four hadn’t taken a life in the three months that Rowan had been there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z This knowledge is stored in its genes and in its brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With Homer, they are the most important source of our knowledge of the myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He and Professor Trelawney are dividing classes between them this year,” said Professor McGonagall, a hint of disapproval in her voice; it was common knowledge that she despised the subject of Divination. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “They marched bravely to their deaths, sure in the knowledge of life everlasting.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Why must it be done without his knowledge?” she asked, settling her hands upon her stick, that she might regard me the more attentively. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Too much knowledge had hindered him; too many holy verses, too many sacrificial rites, too much mortification of the flesh, too much doing and striving. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z A storybook might have held the secret of azoth, and knowledge of stories might have earned him a place in the party, but he hardly thought that tales would give him an edge now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She realized she wasn’t sad about Aunt Rose—the pain of losing her was balanced by the knowledge that the old woman was with her beloved husband in a much better place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z So, when we finally come to Wotton’s formulation of a tacit reserve, we encounter, for the first time, a sound comprehension of the nature of scientific knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With Olivia and every woman who came after her there has been this knowledge to deal with: the great fact of my condition. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You’ll use your knowledge for the welfare of the oasis and its inhabitants. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What knowledge did he seek and on whose behalf? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z That, and the knowledge they will not be sold, Cora added. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His mind was sharp and clear and powerful, though, and soon Lyra came to love him for his knowledge and for the firm way he directed her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was knowledge he wanted, some secret intelligence that he could use for his gain. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Her knowledge of the Smoke had evaporated, the familiar streets reduced to an unrecognizable sprawl of ash and embers. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He won the knowledge of the Runes, too, by suffering. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Nanobots the size of blood cells are injected, sometimes even without a person’s knowledge. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z What is important here is not, despite what Diderot says, the idea that experience is the best way to acquire knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Multiply these daily frustrations by a few billion, and you begin to see that the curse of knowledge is a pervasive drag on the strivings of humanity, on a par with corruption, disease, and entropy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I left for New York happy in the knowledge that my grandmother had not suffered and died for nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was strong but shy, a person of much knowledge but few words. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Then I will have the knowledge of God?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bardic recitation was by nature collective and unifying; the reading of books, by contrast, promoted independence, privacy, and the hoarding of knowledge by the privileged few. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I can tell she knows, it’s like a smell, her knowledge; something gone sour, like old milk. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m utterly flattened by the knowledge that one stupid moment could bring down this kind of curtain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “You never get sick of too much knowledge,” he said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And then, at the end, was that sentence her mother had underlined: “The knowledge will change him.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had, as they say, gone past my knowledge envelope about the stock market. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z They learned how to cook and prepare those foods and passed all this knowledge on to their children. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z How close did he seem to her now!—leaning over his stacks of paper with six candles burning brightly around the perimeter of his desk, scratching his knowledge into the rough, clean space. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z This underscored Bush’s esteem for the breadth of Lawrence’s scientific knowledge and his emollient managerial technique. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Through knowledge, political will, and perhaps some luck, we seem to have tamed inflation and the budget deficit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing Redemption like this was the worst Jam had ever felt in their friendship, especially knowing she’d brought him to the knowledge that did this to him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He was brought into the plot for his encyclopedic knowledge of the smuggling routes from Washington, D.C., into the Deep South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z These seven errors, furthermore, are rarely problems of knowledge or flying skill. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It’s where he’s picked up his encyclopedic knowledge of policy and procedure, and where he spends more afternoons than he’s supposed to, charming aides and trawling for gossip. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Rather, the significance and status of experimental knowledge underwent a peculiar transformation in the course of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The babies must grow up with no knowledge of a world outside, so that they feel no sorrow for what they have lost. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the knowledge gained by scientists in the last few decades, this emotional realm remains much harder to reach. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I’m afraid this is the stop on the knowledge highway where most of us must get off. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The more projects his team of remote executive assistants engages in, the more knowledge they build up. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “But don’t ask me to talk about it. Clayt couldn’t take the knowledge. You couldn’t, either.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Have I risked this, made a grab at knowledge, for a mere joke? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Within this tradition knowledge is primarily mental, conceptual, theoretical and, in the end, mathematical. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "I should not mind it, for it is a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land. And the witch-woman is not the best of mistresses...." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “But what’s wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she thought of running away, not so often now, the knowledge of this awful weakness stopped her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a tragic outcast who lived on the margins, but he tried to compensate by pretending to have inside knowledge about all sorts of mysteries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was told to ask for Dave Mengle because he had walked large parts of the trail himself and was something of an encyclopedia of outdoor knowledge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was the printing press that established a common knowledge base against which these discoveries could be measured. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t know that Tori’s hatred of Jeanine was common knowledge—or maybe it isn’t. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt the knowledge of what she’d seen settle back over her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I would know in six months’ time, but meanwhile it was back into the simulator for me, because that is where I would get the knowledge I needed to fly safely and well. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, our present-day knowledge will prove to be incomplete and limited in the eyes of future generations; we cannot even begin to guess what will one day be known. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mimir’s head will whisper its knowledge of the future to Odin, just as I am telling it to you now. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z But I seemed to have a knack for it above and beyond my natural penchant for absorbing knowledge, so there was never too long a wait. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the Essays Montaigne was making a fundamental claim about our knowledge of the world, that knowledge is always subjective, personal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He would deny any knowledge of the Babylonian, of the wineskins, of any part of it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They had to make sure that it looked like they had stowed away on Druzmilla’s cart without her knowledge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The ones that survived, the knowledge got built into their ideology and behavior with taboos and other kinds of things.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She opened her mouth to say something, but as she glared at Mr. Kapasi some certain knowledge seemed to pass before her eyes, and she stopped. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I took comfort in the knowledge that the Paqo would have told her where I had gone, and that Hatun would be with her by now. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The most disappointing part of that piece of knowledge was that he was not going to fall in love with Mrs. Cadaver and marry her and take her away. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Even the geographical knowledge that one needed in transferring the war ffom one part of the world to another was considerable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In fact, improvisation is an advanced and highly sophisticated skill in which the musician must draw upon all of their previously practiced knowledge and techniques in order to compose “in the moment.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It’s certainly an advantage we have over the omnivore rat, which cannot share its hard-won knowledge of food with other rats. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This new vocabulary was crucial to explaining the status of the new knowledge, and yet it is a language that we have come to take so completely for granted that its invention has become invisible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, some Evidence-Indices can be regarded ‘as if it were certain knowledge’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ruta Skadi was four hundred and sixteen years old, with all the pride and knowledge of an adult witch queen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But Melquíades’ tribe, according to what the wanderers said, had been wiped off the face of the earth because they had gone beyond the limits of human knowledge. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He had been “initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge,” he wrote glowingly to Darwin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a tsunami of dread and obligation and the knowledge of bathroom use in small places. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This man was like the Paqo, filled with knowledge of choices before they were made. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He expressed his grief over his brother’s death and his consolation in the knowledge that James was in heaven united with their mother and father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Montaigne called these various branches of knowledge ‘sciences’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The new knowledge did not spread in the same rapid, confident way outside Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She thought they would just get married and take their knowledge to another family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z "Call it that for want of a better word, if you must. At heart it was only a different sort of knowledge." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And here is the knowledge that was promised—an illusionist should never trust that which giggles and grins.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I had been alone before, but the knowledge that my father would return from his meetings and spend a few minutes with me had made the loneliness endurable. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Boghetti was short, stocky, and dynamic, a demanding teacher with a vast store of knowledge about vocal technique and a stern manner with his students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She learns everything I teach her as if she already knows it, said the mother, but this knowledge does not really enter her soul. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This enterprise required that certain social and technical preconditions be met: the existence of reliable methods of communication, a common body of expert knowledge and an acknowledged group of experts able to adjudicate disputes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She ran then, carrying his knowledge, but her belt fell off and he kept it as a memento. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Garzoni is not very interested in garlic and magnets; but his tract begins by stating that there is much nonsense written about magnets, and that reliable knowledge has to be based on experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For a considerable time—some centuries—the new scientific knowledge was confined within the boundaries of Europe and the ships and colonies of Europeans abroad. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So, lying in the barrack that night, she felt secure in the knowledge that Papa would know his way around Japan. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I explained to him before we started that I had very little knowledge of economics. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Only the football players were privy to that sacred knowledge. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1844, the philosopher Auguste Comte was searching for an example of a sort of knowledge that would be always hidden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I would tell de Wet that I was prepared to die secure in the knowledge that my death would be an inspiration to the cause for which I was giving my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So, with this much knowledge of myself and the world gained and known, why should I not try to work out on paper the problem of what will happen to Bigger? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “We’re equally curious, but it’s not knowledge we need to perform our job.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His people would never free a man with such terrible knowledge. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One is long life expectancy, which in principle should give prospective inventors the years necessary to accumulate technical knowledge, as well as the patience and security to embark on long development programs yielding delayed rewards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I fell in love with his books, filled as they were with not only great adventures but scientists and engineers who considered the acquisition of knowledge to be the greatest pursuit of mankind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It is true that knowledge of air pressure was widespread by 1712, and any explanation of the workings of a barometer would have conveyed to Newcomen the discoveries of Torricelli and Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I had somehow lost my innocence and let sin enter into my soul, and the knowledge of God, the saving grace, was far away. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z David felt that now, felt that he had to know things, know all things, but there wasn’t a way to learn on the boat, not a way to study and gain knowledge. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only one with firsthand knowledge of the interior. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The new doctrines arose partly because of the accumulation of historical knowledge, and the growth of the historical sense, which had hardly existed before the nineteenth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Still, of their own accord — mysteriously! — certain realizations emerged, as if they too had a life, a schedule urging them into the realm of conscious knowledge. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And I was convinced that what they needed to make them complete and grown-up in their living was the inclusion in their personalities of a knowledge of lives such as I lived and suffered containedly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was Blake's detailed knowledge of Operation Gold that threw Bill Harvey's CIA colleagues into disarray. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Does he really want to disagree with those who think that poets and artists stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, and accumulate knowledge about how to write poems and paint pictures? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But he kept this knowledge of his fear thrust firmly down in him; his courage to live depended upon how successfully his fear was hidden from his consciousness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She put that nugget of knowledge away with all the others that she was continually collecting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew that all those rabbits that had shaven bellies—our scientific knowledge adequately covered this point because it was our job to shave the rabbits—were undergoing Aschheim-Zondek tests. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on to impress us with his knowledge of the opium-growing regions of the world. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z We have full access to its wealth of knowledge, of course. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z |
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