Quotes About Knowledge

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in 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.'

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Science is the poetry of reality.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

Hindsight is an exact science.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.