Quotes About Knowledge

Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".

Religion is a distraction from true education.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.

Curiosity lies in a hidden corner of the scientific mind.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

The true business of the philosopher, though not flattering to his vanity, is merely to ascertain, arrange and condense the facts.

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...