“His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.”– William Shenstone Related Quotes “In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”– J. Robert Oppenheimer “Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”– F. H. Bradley “The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.”– Ike Skelton