The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people with respect to our political interests than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools educational opportunities will be limited as they are now to affluent families.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application as we do on acquiring facts.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature reflection and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be with an individual.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.

Slowly but surely we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy which is our objective.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans acquiring discipline organizing thoughts devoting attention to detail and learning to be self critical.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Next to acquiring good friends the best acquisition is that of good books.

This avidity alone of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends is insatiable perpetual universal and directly destructive of society.