Quotes About Knowledge

Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Neue Phaenomena zu erklären, dieses macht meine Sorgen aus, und wie froh ist der Forscher, wenn er das so fleissig Gesuche findet, eine Ergötzung wobei das Herz lacht.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

The fatal futility of Fact.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Science is uncertain.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Science of to-day-the superstition of to-morrow. Science of to-morrow-the superstition of to-day.

Combine science and humanities.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Half of science is putting forth the right questions.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?