Scientific Knowledge Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. — Luther Burbank
All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. — Konrad Lorenz
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison
The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to… — Bertrand Russell
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious. — John B. S. Haldane
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling… — Richard P. Feynman
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800,… — Isaac Asimov
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
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. — Oliver Heaviside
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz
In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
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
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes
Evolution answers some questions but reveals many more questions. Some of these questions at this stage appear to be unanswerable in the light of present… — Barry Price
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes
Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the… — Adolf Hitler

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