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