Quotes About Understanding

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

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

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Science isn't just for scientists and guys in lab coats. It's something that everybody can do.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.