Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. — Sayings
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces. — Hermann von Helmholtz
The scientific method is a powerful tool for discovering objective truths about the world. — Bret Weinstein
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. — Immanuel Kant
Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing. But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts. — Gad Saad
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. — Bertrand Russell
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. — Carl Sagan
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. — Hippocrates
Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion — Richard P. Feynman
Science is simply common sense at its best. — Thomas Huxley
Short Scientific Knowledge Quotes
Science is the systematic classification of experience. — George Henry Lewes
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods. — Ivan Pavlov
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
Scientific Knowledge Image Quotes
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Science And Knowledge Quotes
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. — Lord Kelvin
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be purified and perfected by the enlightenment of real science. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace. — Wernher Von Braun
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. — Albert Hofmann
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. — Louis Pasteur
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. — Dale Carnegie
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. — Bertrand Russell
Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing. — Ramakrishna
What Is Knowledge Quotes
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne
You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. — Seymour Papert
Knowledge is not what is memorised.
Knowledge is what benefits. — Al-Shafi‘i
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. — George Muller
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
What Is Scientific Knowledge Quotes
For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket. — James Gleick
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart. — Flavia Weedn
Today much of what we call education is merely knowledge gathering and remembering. Problem solving and thinking, never strong parts of our educational system, have been downgraded in all but a few scientific subjects. — William Glasser
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. — Oswald Chambers
Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures. — Jurgen Habermas
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. — Christopher Lasch
For beautiful eye look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Derek Freeman
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that. — Duane G. Carey
A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific. — Karl Jaspers
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour. — George Santayana
What Is Science Quotes
Success in science and scientific work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
Physics is to mathematics what sex is to masturbation. — Richard P. Feynman
That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. — Tim Minchin
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word. — George F. R. Ellis
What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. — Joe Rogan
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. — Irvine Welsh
Our children are watching us all the time. They learn much more by what they see than what they hear. Moral science is never learnt from books, but from watching those who live around us. The world will follow your example and not your advice. — Mahatria Ra
Scientific Truth Quotes
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. — Aristotle
It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have. — Benjamin E. Mays
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. — Maxwell Planck
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. — Max Planck
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. — Robert M. Pirsig
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. — Robert M. Pirsig
Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. — William James
There is no 'black mind' or 'white mind', no 'white male of knowing', there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method. — Gad Saad
The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize. — Irene Joliot-Curie
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. — Louis Orr
Medical Knowledge Quotes
As a doctor, he knew that there is no physiological reason for all men and women over the age of 40 to become overweight. — Wim Hof
...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead
An inquiring, analytical mind; an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge; and a heartfelt compassion for the ailing - these are prominent traits among the committed clinicians who have preserved the passion for medicine. — Michael E. DeBakey
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles. — William Osler
Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations. — Abraham Flexner
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect. — Immanuel Kant
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. — Susan Polis Schutz
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence. — Sayings
But we need a medical community that's trained and knowledgeable and working on advancement. — Michelle Obama
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine. — Gerald F. Lieberman
Human Knowledge Quotes
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man. — Fridtjof Nansen
From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. — Adi Shankara
Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual. — Al-Ghazali
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. — Paulo Freire
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. — Leo Tolstoy
The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it. — Marcus Garvey
All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry. — Al-Shafi‘i
Historical Knowledge Quotes
You have to know the past to understand the present. — Carl Sagan
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science — Franz Boas
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. — Johan Huizinga
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. — Edith Hamilton
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next. — Laurence Overmire
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress! — Napoleon Bonaparte
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. — Abdallah II
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. — Hu Shih
The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions. — Paul De Man
There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders. — Camille Paglia
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. — Karl Popper
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. — Mark Russell
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. — Paul Dirac
The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory. — Arthur Eddington
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. — Sidney Altman
With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on. — Fritjof Capra
Before the 1940s the terms "system" and "systems thinking" had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement — Fritjof Capra
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. — Thomas A. Edison
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. — Robert L. Park
Scientific Research Quotes
The scientific research will tell you that the more income you get the more happy you will become, but once you get to average income your happiness plateaus. — Mo Gawdat
The future, with its needs and challenges, calls upon us to embark on a perpetual quest for alternative sources of energy. This can only be done through the support of relevant scientific research. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
I made the key discovery for CRISPR there, while living in my scientific monastery in northern Sweden. At the same time, I was very interested in detective stories, searching for enigmas. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. — Frederick Sanger
If we can validate our scientific bets in the clinic, if we can bring valuable new treatments to patients that need them, that will be our ultimate measure of success. — Vivek Ramaswamy
The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings. — Tom DeLay
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. — Thad Cochran
One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? — Seth Lloyd
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction. — Francis William Aston
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. — Max Gluckman
There is no use of simply acquiring titles or amassing wealth if one has no self-respect and scientific knowledge. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Our reliance upon knowledge and scientific thinking to achieve total development is the only way to bring our nation ahead to the stage of non-oil production, a lesson learnt from nations with little or no natural resources. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world. — Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
Some of the best scientists can't explain gravity; Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know? — Logan Paul
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems. — Murray Bookchin
An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Carmichael Stopes
Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge. — Manly Hall
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. — Nate Silver
I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. — Louis Agassiz
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. — Albert Einstein
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research. — Albert Einstein
When children are truly involved in the scientific process they gain understanding, knowledge, and life skills. They deepen their awareness of what's going on around them and how others contribute to their well-being. — Lilian Katz
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. — Walt Whitman
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge. — Charles Hard Townes
Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire
The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further. — Marc Quinn
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes. — Karl Jaspers
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. — William Lawrence Bragg
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations, inadequate formulation, and unconscious prejudice is rarely appreciated by those who obtain their scientific knowledge from textbooks. — James Bryant Conant
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. — Karl Jaspers
If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians. — Rudolf Virchow
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. — Thomas A. Edison
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly. — Robert M. Pirsig
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. — Martin Luther
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself. — Gaston Bachelard
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. — Lewis Mumford
We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it. — John Searle
I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. — H. P. Lovecraft
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. — Bertrand Russell
All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality. — Darrel Ray
As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems. — Vannevar Bush
Science...has become identified with a philosophy known as materialism or scientific naturalism. This philosophy insists that nature is all there is, or at least the only thing about which we can have any knowledge. It follows that nature had to do its own creating, and that the means of creation must have included any role for God. — Phillip E. Johnson
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. — Jean Piaget
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. — Richard P. Feynman
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