Quotes About Knowledge

However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Science, you don't know, looks like magic.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

All science requires mathematics.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."