Quotes About Knowledge

Science is always inquiring.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.

Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of known facts, or to discover their mutual relations.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.