Quotes About Knowledge

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house

Science is nothing but perception.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

The true science and study of man is man.

Speak less than you know; have more than you show

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The only book that won't help you, is the one you don't read.

Grow from your experiences they're the gates of Learning.