Quotes About Experience

Experience alone can decide on truth.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.