Quotes About Knowledge

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

All of science can be divided into physics and stamp-collecting.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.