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Quotes About Knowledge

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.
~ Brian Greene
Science is public, not private, knowledge.
~ Robert K. Merton
Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.
~ Fritjof Capra
The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.
~ Henry H. Arnold
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
~ Thomas Young
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.
~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.
~ Laozi
Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.
~ John Lennox
In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.
~ Steven Weinberg
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.
~ Sam Cooke
Science is the discovery of how God does things.
~ John G. Lake
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
~ Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is practical philosophy.
~ Rene Descartes
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
~ Francis Bacon
If one were not animated with the desire to discover laws, they would escape the most enlightened attention.
~ Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
~ Michael Shermer
The world is my country. Science my religion.
~ Christiaan Huygens
God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.
~ Francis Collins
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
~ Ann Druyan