Knowledge Quotes

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Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they… — Isaac Asimov
Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws… — Arthur Eddington
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. — Claude Bernard
We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that… — Robert Morrison MacIver
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to… — George Will
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that… — David Hume
What is known for certain is dull. — Max Perutz
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. — Enrico Fermi
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. — George Bernard Shaw
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is… — Isaac Newton
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric… — Charles Kingsley
[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it. — Hermann Bondi
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of… — John Burroughs
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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