Knowledge Quotes

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

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"The correlations in quantum systems suggest a deeper unity underlying apparent separateness."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Every careful experiment brings us closer to understanding the true nature of reality."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The correlations between distant quantum systems remain among the deepest puzzles of physics."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Bell's work reminds us that the most profound truths often hide in plain sight."
Bell, John Stewart
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of many names that were very close to one another for a very important concept."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The development of science in the twentieth century suggests that man can learn much by studying the structure of the atom."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Discovery commences with the awareness of anomaly."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"We see what we have been trained to see."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"The structure of scientific revolutions is fundamentally about how knowledge evolves."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"The puzzle-solving activity of normal science can obscure deeper truths."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Scientific knowledge accumulates, but not all past knowledge survives paradigm shifts."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"The very concept of anomaly depends on the paradigm within which one works."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Anomalies become visible only in the context of a paradigm."
Kuhn, Thomas
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"Consciousness may be the universe observing itself through infinite paths."
Everett, Hugh
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"We interpret the universe according to our frameworks, and the universe obliges."
Everett, Hugh
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"Interpretation is not a flaw in physics; it is the essence of understanding."
Everett, Hugh
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"We are patterns of information becoming aware of itself."
Everett, Hugh
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"The universe does not hide its secrets; we have not learned to ask the right questions."
Everett, Hugh
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"The universe is transparent to those willing to accept its fundamental strangeness."
Everett, Hugh
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"You cannot look at consciousness without changing it by the very act of looking."
Bohm, David
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"We must learn to think of the universe as a unified whole."
Bohm, David
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"We must learn to see beyond the mechanical model of the universe."
Bohm, David
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"Understanding comes when we move beyond our conditioned patterns."
Bohm, David
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"Perception is not passive reception but active participation."
Bohm, David
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"Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its applications."
Dirac, Paul
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"To understand the universe at the deepest level requires both rigorous mathematics and imaginative leaps."
Dirac, Paul
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"The path to understanding begins with accepting how little we truly know."
Dirac, Paul
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"The greatest achievement in science is discovering that we know almost nothing."
Dirac, Paul
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"To understand the quantum realm requires abandoning classical intuitions."
Dirac, Paul