Knowledge Helps, but Alone It Is Not Enough

Dominance alone is not enough.

Muscle alone is not enough.

Irritability, the property of response to the forces in the environment , is present in even the more primitive living cells. If a weak electric shock or touch is applied to an amoeba, it will immediately respond with a movement exemplified by a flow of its protoplasm. It will also respond to temperature, oxygen, pH, and various other environmental stimuli. Yet this primitive single-cell organi...

Knowledge is not enough.

Y ears ago, when I was just starting out in my profession and eager to prove myself competent and capable, one of my mentors quoted to me the old saying, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Over the years, I have found this statement to be more than just a play on words. In my work with family medicine residents, I have observed via video monitor countless...

Knowledge is not enough.

It is my privilege as President of the American College of Chest Physicians to greet you tonight and commend you for the splendid achievements of the Missouri Chapter of the College. Furthermore, I am grateful for the opportunity of being with you-my personal friends-at this dinner culminating a day of scientific discussion. I will discuss most briefly some of the indeterminate factors I consid...

When Work Alone is Not Enough

The author is John Bascom Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The very helpful comments of Isabel Sawhill and David Ellwood are gratefully acknowledged, as is the discussion of an early draft of the paper by the members of the Brookings Roundtable on Children. A version of this article will be published in 2003 in a volume edited by Isabel Sawhill a...