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.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge but their ability to experience new things - I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.

If on occasion the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.

As governor I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability judgment and knowledge but above all a passion for service.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place time and ability.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The intelligence community for the most part has no accountability at all to the Congress to us the American people and so they feel that they above the law.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information made better use of technology and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.

It's a great excuse and luxury having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.