Quote by Samuel Richardson

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

— Alexander Pope

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

“If all men by nature desire to know, then they desire most of all the greatest knowledge of science. And he immediately indicates what…

— John Duns Scotus

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of…

— Rob Dunn

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.

— Lord Dunsany

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

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

— Alfred North Whitehead

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is…

— Matthew Simpson

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

— Claude Bernard

It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value…

— G. H. Hardy

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant…

— Mike Brown