Discovery Quote by Ernst Mayr

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you…

— William James

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

— Cameron Esposito

The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution.…

— Albert Schweitzer

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

— John Locke

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

— Anonymous

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make…

— John Locke

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

— Mary Parker Follett

I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world,…

— Hilary Kornblith

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

— Marilyn Ferguson

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building…

— Mao Zedong