Quotes About Knowledge

2. Is it possible that there is something we do not fully understand about life, the understanding of which would change everything?

Churn the milk of the mind, yourself the churner Locate the Primal Point and Sound, break it down with meditation Heat the butter of knowledge Spirituality empowered, you will find the ghee With these ingredients, a yagna I perform Offering the oblation of my own limbs. The flames that rise are your own effulgence In them my essence revealed, I stand as myself, finally. ~ Rupa Bhavani (1625-1721)

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Our academic system rewards people who know a lot of stuff and generally we call those people smart, but at the end of the day who do you want- the person who can figure things out that they've never seen before or the person who can rattle off a bunch of facts?

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong

Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.

Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

True science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature of Science

As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.

Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.