Knowledge Quotes

From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.

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"Understanding development unlocks the mystery of life itself."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"Understanding life means understanding ourselves."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"Nature's language is mathematics, spoken through biology."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"Questions about nature have no end, only deeper understanding."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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"If you want to understand function, you have to look at structure."
Sydney Brenner
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"Observation without interpretation is just data."
Sydney Brenner
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"In science, conviction without evidence is merely opinion."
Sydney Brenner
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"In every organism lies the answer to fundamental questions."
Sydney Brenner
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"A question well-asked is already half-answered."
Sydney Brenner
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"Every organism is a chapter in the book of life."
Sydney Brenner
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"To understand one species is to understand the principle of all life."
Sydney Brenner
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"In the laboratory, observation without hypothesis is merely collection."
Alfred Hershey
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"To understand life, one must first master the art of careful observation."
Alfred Hershey
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"The scientist's greatest strength is admitting what remains unknown."
Alfred Hershey
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"Science progresses when we listen more than we speak."
Alfred Hershey
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"The laboratory teaches that failure is information, not judgment."
Alfred Hershey
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"The deepest understanding comes from studying what others overlook."
Alfred Hershey
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"Understanding requires both the precision of mathematics and the humility of wonder."
Alfred Hershey
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"Every answer in science is really a new set of better questions."
Alfred Hershey
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"The mind that remains closed to new evidence is already imprisoned."
Hermann Muller
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"The study of any subject reveals the interconnectedness of all knowledge."
Hermann Muller
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"Scientific progress depends on our willingness to be proven wrong."
Max Delbrück
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"Biology teaches us that life's complexity emerges from simple fundamental principles."
Max Delbrück
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"Life operates according to principles we are only beginning to comprehend."
Max Delbrück
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"We must learn to read the language written in the DNA of all living things."
Max Delbrück
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"Science advances by replacing mystery with understanding, not by denying mystery."
Max Delbrück
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"Life's complexity emerges not from complexity of components but from their interactions."
Max Delbrück
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"Understanding life is understanding the ultimate problem-solving system."
Max Delbrück
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"Inheritance is the passing on of characteristics from parents to offspring through genes."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Chromosomes are the physical basis of heredity—this much we can now assert with confidence."
Thomas Hunt Morgan