Quotes About Experience

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Hindsight is an exact science.

What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

I was a Political Science major.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

By far the best proof is experience.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.