Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them. — John Dewey
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions… — Isaac Asimov
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge. — Albert Einstein
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries… — Linus Pauling
Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed… — Werner Heisenberg
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there… — Henry David Thoreau
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore… — Carl Linnaeus
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented. — Francis Bacon
No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know,… — Alfred North Whitehead
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. — Victor Hugo
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. — Humphry Davy
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
O telescope, instrument of knowledge, more precious than any sceptre. — Johannes Kepler
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple… — Simon Newcomb
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values… — Jacques Monod

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