Knowledge Quotes

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Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of… — Reginald Punnett
Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural. — Edward Westermarck
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge… — Philip Kitcher
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge… — Jean-Andre Deluc
Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. — John Alexander Morrison
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically… — Edmund Pellegrino
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life. — Ivan Sechenov
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise… — Karl Jaspers
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it… — Philip Abelson
Science is public, not private, knowledge. — Robert K. Merton
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live… — Moses Harvey
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important… — Bengt I. Samuelsson
The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best… — Percy Williams Bridgman
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The… — Arthur David Ritchie
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the… — Auguste Comte

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