Quotes About Knowledge

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Knowledge is the death of research.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Metaphysics is a science.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.