Quotes About Knowledge

Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Our true mentor in life is science.

I still think science is looking for answers and art is looking for questions.

Science brings men nearer to God.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

To understand is to invent.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

Science is simply common sense at its best.