Quotes About Knowledge

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

By far the best proof is experience.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Science is the only true guide in life.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications of scientific research.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Religion and science look at reality differently.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.