Knowledge Quotes
From ancient scholars to modern scientists, these quotes explore what it means to learn and to know.
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"The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know."Feynman, Richard
"The real insight is that if you can explain something simply, you understand it."Feynman, Richard
"The only source of knowledge is experience."Einstein, Albert
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."Einstein, Albert
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."Einstein, Albert
"The important thing is to not stop questioning."Einstein, Albert
"Learning is experience, everything else is just information."Einstein, Albert
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."Heisenberg, Werner
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die."Heisenberg, Werner
"The transition from the physics of Newton to the physics of Einstein is a good example of the way in which scientific advances are made."Heisenberg, Werner
"I understand only those questions which can be answered by actual, concrete experience and actual, concrete facts."Heisenberg, Werner
"The greatest discoveries come from the willingness to question everything."Heisenberg, Werner
"The paradox of knowledge is that the more we know, the more we realize we do not know."Heisenberg, Werner
"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."Schrödinger, Erwin
"An animal that embarks on the study of itself can be destroyed by the consequences."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The more we know about nature, the less we understand it."Schrödinger, Erwin
"To comprehend is to understand the nature of things, not merely their appearance."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The greatest discoveries come not from seeking answers, but from seeking better questions."Schrödinger, Erwin
"The future belongs to those who understand that knowledge is not power, but responsibility."Schrödinger, Erwin
"To understand even one atom completely is to understand the entire universe."Schrödinger, Erwin
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."Wigner, Eugene
"What is important is not the answer, but the method of arriving at the answer."Wigner, Eugene
"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest endeavor."Wigner, Eugene
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."Bohr, Niels
"Isolated knowledge is not sufficient. We need wisdom."Bohr, Niels
"The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot operate outside the natural laws."Bohr, Niels
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is the highest calling."Bohr, Niels
"The complexity of the world is matched only by the capacity of the human mind to understand it."Bohr, Niels
"The most general principle of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle."Dirac, Paul