Quotes About Knowledge

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

I was like I was in science class: I was curious.