Knowledge Quotes

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Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism. — Francis Crick
Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. — Isaac Asimov
Facts, and facts alone, are the foundation of science... When one devotes oneself to experimental research it is in order to augment the sum of… — Francois Magendie
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match… — James Gleick
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery… — E. O. Wilson
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. — Walt Whitman
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to… — Isaac Newton
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone. — Hippocrates
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so, expensively and laboriously,… — Edward Lear
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see. — Giordano Bruno
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into… — Benjamin Franklin
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all… — Stephen Hawking
I trust and believe that the time spent in this voyage ... will produce its full worth in Natural History; and it appears to me… — Charles Darwin
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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