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Quotes About Knowledge

I think science is real.
~ Hillary Clinton
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
~ Hippocrates
Education is an organic necessity of a human being.
~ Horace Mann
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
~ Horace Mann
The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.
~ Isaac Asimov
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.
~ Isaac Asimov
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
~ Isaac Asimov
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
~ William James
Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.
~ J. William Fulbright
I'll teach you differences.
~ William Shakespeare
We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
~ James Anthony Froude
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
~ James Delingpole
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.
~ James F. Cooper
The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.
~ Wellington Mara
The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.
~ James Gleick
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
~ James Hansen
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.
~ James Russell Lowell
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.
~ Jamie Dimon
None but a woman can teach the science of herself.
~ Jane Austen
How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
~ Jean Giraudoux
What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?
~ Jean Rostand
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.
~ Jerome Ravetz