Quotes About Knowledge

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.