Quotes About Knowledge

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

Astrology is a disease, not a science.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Science is the search for truth.

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.