Scientific Knowledge Quotes

71 quotes by 60 authors

It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is,… — G. H. Hardy
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is… — Karl Jaspers
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad â€” but it does not carry instructions on how to use it. — Richard P. Feynman
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I… — Flavia Weedn
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. — Imre Lakatos
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge,… — Asa Gray
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time… — Hermann von Helmholtz
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge,… — Meher Baba
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. While I was conducting experiments to make spineless cacti, I often talked to… — Luther Burbank
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. — Vincent Van Gogh
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view. — Max Planck
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. — Nate Silver
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability… — Steve Wozniak
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he… — Oswald Chambers
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a… — Lois McMaster Bujold
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have… — Margaret Mead

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