Quotes About Wisdom

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

By far the best proof is experience.

When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.