Quotes About Knowledge

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor in general whether there is anything or not.

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.