Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of…

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of…

— Albert Einstein

Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved…

— Max Weber

The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For…

— John Dewey

... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he…

— Ronald Fisher

Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“My trepidation was growing more terrible by the minute. "Why did you do this? Why have you brought me here?" "Why?" He repeated with…

— Victoria Vane

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

— Charles Dickens

“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…

— Carl Zimmer

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

— Bankei Yotaku

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

— M. Scott Peck

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

— Rabelaise