“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”– Francis Bacon Related Quotes “Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.”– William Kirby “We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.”– Rory Bremner “Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”– Ambrose Bierce