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Quotes About Understanding

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
~ Abraham Kuyper
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
~ John Charles Polanyi
You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.
~ Randall Munroe
Science is the topography of ignorance.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.
~ Paul Davies
Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
~ Stephen Hawking
Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!
~ Richard P. Feynman
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
~ Freeman Dyson
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
~ Rudolf Virchow
Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.
~ Felix Klein
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
~ John Edensor Littlewood
It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.
~ Kedar Joshi
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
~ Edward Kasner
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.
~ Kedar Joshi
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.
~ Charles Fort
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.
~ William Stanley Jevons
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
~ We see only what we know.
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
~ John D. Barrow
Science is the only religion of mankind.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
~ Isaac Newton
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
~ Daniel Dennett
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
~ Matthew Arnold