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Originally Posted by Augi
There is a difference between knowing an understanding. To know something means only that you recognize that it is. To understand something is to realize why it is.
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I agree with you that knowledge is different than comprehension. Bloom's taxonomy is a chart that states the different levels of learning. The bottom level is knowledge. The levels are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. With these steps, however, eviltree's assumption that any idiot can plug numbers into a math problem does not work. The concept of Bloom's is that you cannot jump a step. Therefore, you cannot know a formula and then apply it without comprehending it first.
But back to the original question, I think that knowledge is infinite. First of all there are many things about the earth that we do not know. Supernatural, mathematical, scientific, psychological, medical...There are still species of animals and plants being discovered everyday. Only about 10% of the ocean has been explored, so there is a lot more to learn there. And who knows how much of the universe needs to be explored.
Even if we did find answers to all the ideas that we know we don't know, there will still be a lot of things that we don't even know we don't know.
(If that makes sense)
When I was reading this question, I thought of Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, when they create the machine to find the answer to the universe and it was 42. Yet, they didn't even know the question. I think that knowledge will always be like that. Even when we find an answer, there will still be questions present.