Knowledge Quotes

"The pursuit of knowledge requires both imagination and rigorous discipline."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

"If we cannot think in a certain way, we cannot speak in a certain way, and so we cannot think in that way."

"Every physics student knows what is meant by the 'Uncertainty Principle'."

"Science as a whole has become so complicated that it is hard for any individual to grasp all of it."

"Knowledge is power only if we know how to use it responsibly."

"The probability of an event represents our degree of knowledge about it."

"Science is not a collection of laws, a catalogue of unrelated facts. It is a creation of the human mind, with its freely invented ideas and concepts."

"Every discovery brings with it the seeds of new mysteries."

"Knowledge without application is like a seed that never finds soil."

"Whatever the ups and downs of detail within science, the great edifice of adaptation of means to ends which so awes us in all living creatures has been reared by a process of trial and error."

"The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy."

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in language comprehensible to everyone."

"The brain is like a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it becomes."

"A good scientist is one who listens more than he speaks."

"The best experiments are those that teach you something unexpected."

"Great discoveries are often preceded by great confusion."

"A scientist who thinks he has all the answers is not really a scientist."

"A mind that is content with what it already knows will never discover anything new."

"Achievement in science depends on ideas."

"Every scientific discovery opens new questions."

"The pursuit of knowledge is a noble endeavor."

"A scientist's greatest tool is curiosity."

"The world is interconnected in ways we are only beginning to understand."

"The pursuit of science is the pursuit of understanding."

"Science is not a separate realm of knowledge remote from life and its problems."

"I think there is a deep unity underlying all scientific inquiry - the desire to understand."

"Every structure solved adds not a fact but a framework for understanding."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

"The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask."