Quotes About Knowledge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

We men who serve science serve only a reflection in a mirror.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.

There are no limits to what science can explore.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.