Quotes About Wisdom

Science is the only true guide in life.

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.