Acquire Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“If all men by nature desire to know, then they desire most of all the greatest knowledge of science. And he immediately indicates what…

— John Duns Scotus

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

— Matt Ridley

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

— Walter Russell

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

— Samuel Johnson

Man by Nature desires to know.

— Aristotle

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

— Lord Dunsany

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for…

— Karl Popper

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over…

— Francis Bacon

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