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Quotes About Knowledge

Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
~ Aristotle
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
~ Claudette Colbert
If you want to know all about
~ Andy Warhol
Proclaim not all thou knowest
~ Benjamin Franklin
I know everything except myself
~ Francois Villon
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
~ Moliere
Never memorize something that you can look up.
~ Albert Einstein
The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.
~ Kedar Joshi
We need to apply the science of communication to the communication of science.
~ Preston Manning
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
~ Unknown
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
~ Unknown
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
~ Unknown
All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Science is some kind of cosmic apple juice from the Garden of Eden. Those who drink of it are doomed to carry the burden of original sin.
~ Unknown
Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
~ Lord Byron
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality
~ Mary McCarthy
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.
~ Max Planck
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
~ Erwin Chargaff
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
~ Louis Pasteur
The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view
~ Max Planck
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
~ George Wald
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
~ Unknown