Scientia potentia est that with knowledge or education, one's potential or abilities in life will certainly increase. Having and sharing knowledge is widely recognized as the basis for improving one's reputation and influence, thus power. This phrase may also be used as a justification for a reluctance to share information when a person believes that withholding knowledge can deliver to that person some forms of advantage. Another interpretation is that the only true power is knowledge, as everything (including any achievement) is derived from it. Terry Brooks. "First King of Shannara" Ballantine. C. 1996 Scientia potentia est The phrase "scientia potentia est"" (or
Mais où est donc Ornicar ? 17777 Ornicar, after the phrase following its discovery by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols on 24 March 1998. According to the JPL Small-Body Database, the naming "honor[ed] French teachers around the world" and "provides one answer to [the] question" of where to find Ornicar. In 2002, Gérald Stehr and Willi Glasauer published a children's book titled "Mais où est donc Ornicar?" (English version as "But, where, therefore, is Oscar, the Platypus?")—it features Ornicar as a platypus ("ornithorynque" in French). In 2005, the Quebec rock group Les Dales Hawerchuk released a song with the title "Mais où est donc Carnior