Quotes About Knowledge

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The universe is an intelligence test.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.

Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.