“For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.”– Richard Cobden Related Quotes “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”– Francis Bacon “So I’d be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I’d let him use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge. We’ll do fine.”– Newt Gingrich “Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”– Ambrose Bierce