Quotes About Knowledge

It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Read books when you are free, read minds when you are'nt....but do read...

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.