Quotes About Knowledge

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.