Quotes About Knowledge

The true worth of a researcher lies in pursuing what he did not seek in his experiment as well as what he sought.

Art is I: Science is We.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The wise man is not he who gives the right answers; he is the one who asks the right questions.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

I may be subjected to the criticism of being called 'scientistic' or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve absolutely all problems. Well, I certainly don't believe that, because I cannot conceive that a day will come when science will be complete and achieved.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

Death, before erasing me from the world, erases my desire to know the world. What's the good of seeing if you can't see everything, or see forever.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

The further I get, the more I regret how little I know…

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

Qué sería para ella "leer enfermizamente"? ¿Cuántas horas por día? ¿Cuántos libros por mes? ¿Sería consciente de que me lo estaba diciendo a mí, que soy librera?

you only know something once you've experienced it in your life, life is our greatest test.

People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.

Yo sé bastante de mecánica, pero él no sabe que sé, porque ocuparse de los autos es una tarea de los hombres, y como decía mi mamá, el día que cambiás un cuerito, sonaste, porque ya creen que sos plomera diplomada y no agarran un destornillador ni que se esté inundando la casa.

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived.