Quotes About Knowledge

Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.