Knowledge Quotes

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

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"Knowledge dispels ignorance and superstition."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The pursuit of knowledge is endless."
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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"The distinction between genotype and phenotype is essential to understanding inheritance."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Mankind has long intuited the laws of heredity before science explained them."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The gene concept represents our deepest understanding of life's continuity."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The study of variation is the study of life's infinite possibilities."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Understanding heredity is understanding our own nature."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"In the genes lies the record of what has worked across generations."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The gene theory unified our understanding of life's diversity."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Understanding heredity reveals the hidden logic of the living world."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The organism bears within itself the accumulated wisdom of its ancestry."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Authority has every reason to fear the informed citizen."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"There is no greater tragedy than to die ignorant."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"There is an enemy called ignorance inside each one of us."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Memory is the treasure house of the mind."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The known is finite, the unknown is infinite."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Knowledge of the past is the key to understanding the present."
Georges Cuvier
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"Understanding the extinction of species teaches us about survival."
Georges Cuvier
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"A single fossil can overturn a thousand theories."
Georges Cuvier
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"Understanding life requires studying both the living and the dead."
Georges Cuvier
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"To understand extinction is to understand existence."
Georges Cuvier
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"In nature's repetitions, we discover nature's principles."
Georges Cuvier
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"Understanding ancient life teaches us about present existence."
Georges Cuvier
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"The study of heredity reveals that life is far more complex than our simple observations suggest."
Hugo de Vries
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"Hereditary traits speak a language that careful observation can decipher."
Hugo de Vries
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"Understanding heredity is understanding the continuity of life itself."
Hugo de Vries
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"The naturalist who truly sees understands that nothing is fixed, all is fluid."
Hugo de Vries
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"To understand one plant is to understand something of all plants."
Hugo de Vries
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"The observer who sees truly understands that nature respects no human hierarchy."
Hugo de Vries