Knows Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

— Bertrand Russell

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

— Samuel Johnson

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men…

— Charles Darwin

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or…

— William Kingdon Clifford

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

— Lord Dunsany

The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able…

— Hermann Bondi

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists…

— Charles Darwin

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Laurence J. Peter

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge