Quotes About Knowledge

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.