Quotes About Knowledge

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion