Knowledge Quotes

"In the fields of observation, chance favors only the mind that is prepared."

"The greatest revolutions often come from the smallest discoveries."

"My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration."

"The greatest achievements of man have resulted from the transmission and storage of ideas."

"The brain is a committee of experts. All that we are, all our knowledge and beliefs, are there because of it."

"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we stand on an islet in the midst of a boundless ocean."

"If you want to make an apple pie, you need not only the apples but also the knowledge of how to bake."

"The greatest joy is in understanding. Everything else is secondary."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the highest calling."

"What I cannot create, I do not understand."

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

"The principle of science is that you don't know anything."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"Everything that is possible in nature is possible in knowledge."

"Questions are more precious than answers."

"Knowledge is power, but only when applied with wisdom."

"The fact that life has evolved out of nearly simple elements is a great truth, readily grasped by an understanding mind."

"Unhappily the world has always been prone to lose the very knowledge that is most important to it."

"The true man is the intellectual individual."

"My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original dimensions."

"A single discovery can illuminate centuries of darkness."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest form of ambition."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a sword in the hands of a madman."

"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."

"The human understanding is faltered by taking too narrow and too philosophical a view of nature."