Quotes About Knowledge

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries