Quotes About Wisdom

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all - especially for young physicians - we ought to throw in no medicine at all - to abstain - to observe a wise and masterly inactivity.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

I am not a scientist.

There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.