Philosopher Quote by Imre Lakatos

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

— Maria Mitchell

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments,…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that…

— Henry David Thoreau

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself…

— Marilynne Robinson

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

— Hippocrates

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.

— Anonymous

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 young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at…

— Isaac Asimov

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

— Jean Piaget