Quotes About Knowledge

Fear is religion, courage is science.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I am not a scientist.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

Reduction is at the heart of progress in science.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Science [is] knowledge of the truth of Propositions and how things are called.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.