Quote by US Naval Academy

“ Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.”

— Thomas Hobbes

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

— John Charles Polanyi

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of…

— William Bligh

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

— Francis Bacon

Scientists, explorers, intellectuals: discoverers of the exciting existing!

— Julias Cattail

“Science is a cosy, friendly club of specialists who follow their numerous different stars; it is proud and wonderfully productive but never certain and…

— James Lovelock

“Science is far from the objective and impartial search for incontrovertible truths that nonscientists might imagine. It is, in fact, a social endeavor where…

— Svante Pääbo

“Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences,…

— Baha'u'llah

“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

“The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and…

— Jacques Barzun

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and scientists who…

— David Flynn

“I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and exploration than those which I now enjoy. I am…

— Alexander Humboldt