Education Quote by John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection.…

— John Dewey

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result…

— Denis Diderot

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts…

— Niels Bohr

Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already…

— Anonymous

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

— Daniel Barenboim

“is—it is necessary to come first to an understanding concerning knowledge, which is looked upon as the instrument by which to take possession of…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A scientist strives to understand the work of Nature. But with our insufficient talents as scientists, we do not hit upon the truth all…

— Anonymous

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

— Richard P. Feynman

“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments…

— Martin Guevara Urbina

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

— Leonardo da Vinci

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active,…

— Nikola Tesla