To carry knowledge to the doors of those that lack it and to educate all to perceive the right! Even to give away the whole earth cannot equal that form of service. – Manu, as cited by S. R. Ranganathan, The Five Laws of Library Science (2d ed., 1957)
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Service
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged knowledge, libraries, Manu, S. R. Ranganathan on 2009-05-14 | Leave a Comment »
Knowledge Rebuked
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged Bible, knowledge on 2009-04-03 | Leave a Comment »
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. – Ecclesiastes 1:18
Knowledge
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged complexity, knowledge, Robert Maynard Hutchins on 2009-04-02 | Leave a Comment »
Clearly facts are not knowledge. We do not have knowledge until we have organization. A possible world is an organization of ideas and facts. The facts are made intelligible only through the organization. A telephone book is knowledge only in the most limited sense. Such sense as it has it acquires through its alphabetical organization. [...]
Statistical Methods
Posted in Commonplace Book, tagged Andrew Lang, knowledge, research, statistics on 2009-03-30 | Leave a Comment »
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamppost — for support rather than for illumination. – Andrew Lang
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