Knowledge Quotes

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...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. — James Jeans
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. — John Arbuthnot
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise. — Horace
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'Ã¢me. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen. — David Hilbert
We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. — Benjamin Franklin
A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought… — John Henry Newman
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it. — George Wald
A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy,… — George Wald
A smattering of everything is worth little. It is a fallacy to suppose that an encyclopaedic knowledge is desirable. The mind is made strong, not… — Louis Agassiz
Activity is the only road to knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume
All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. — Miguel de Unamuno
All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to… — David Hume
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. — Salvador Dali

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