Quotes About Knowledge

I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.

Frankly, if I walk into your house and you don't have two hundred books somewhere that you haven't read yet, I don't trust you.

I took to the...Library as to a lover...

The house was still, weighty with the comfort of a thousand books.

You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.

Are we never to educate ourselves to foresee such dangers and to prevent them before they happen? All the evidence of history shows that laws unknown and unsuspected are being discovered day by day: as this knowledge accumulates for the use of man, is it not certain that the ability to see and destroy beforehand the threat of danger will be one of the privileges the whole world will utilise?

Research is a joy, especially when one is not burdened with an excessive reverence for the truth.

One must know a great many unimportant things in order to know those few things which are important.

after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he would be an art. Sculpture or medicine. But the immense extension of knowledge in this our age, the growth of new sciences, makes it almost impossible for us to digest the available flavours and put them to use.

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.