Knowledge Quotes

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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either… — Michael Faraday
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others. — Joseph Priestley
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is… — Niels Bohr
Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. — Ronald Fisher
It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created.… — Johannes Kepler
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth. — Karl Popper
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. — Jean Rostand
It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in… — Carl Sagan
It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer… — Richard Hamming
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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