Quotes About Knowledge

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

History is a science, no more and no less.

What is known for certain is dull.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.

Intelligence is not a science.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.