“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”– Lord Chesterfield Related Quotes “The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”– Meister Eckhart “Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”– Hippocrates “Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”– Terry Eagleton