Quotes About Knowledge

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Science is the true theology.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Experience alone can decide on truth.