Knowing Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

— Robert Fripp

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of…

— Polykarp Kusch

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

— Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing…

— Soren Kierkegaard

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower…

— Parker J. Palmer

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

“It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in effect, two…

— T. Colin Campbell

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

— Hippocrates

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

— Walter Russell

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

— Gaston Bachelard

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

— Parker J. Palmer