Quotes About Knowledge

When I was young I liked taking tests. I happened to be good at it. Certain subjects came easily, like math. All the science stuff. I would just read the textbooks in the first few days of class.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.