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
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"The real insight is that if you can explain something simply, you understand it."
Feynman, Richard
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."
Einstein, Albert
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"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
Einstein, Albert
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Einstein, Albert
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"The important thing is to not stop questioning."
Einstein, Albert
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"Learning is experience, everything else is just information."
Einstein, Albert
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"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"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
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"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
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"I understand only those questions which can be answered by actual, concrete experience and actual, concrete facts."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The greatest discoveries come from the willingness to question everything."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"The paradox of knowledge is that the more we know, the more we realize we do not know."
Heisenberg, Werner
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"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
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"An animal that embarks on the study of itself can be destroyed by the consequences."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The more we know about nature, the less we understand it."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"To comprehend is to understand the nature of things, not merely their appearance."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The greatest discoveries come not from seeking answers, but from seeking better questions."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The future belongs to those who understand that knowledge is not power, but responsibility."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"To understand even one atom completely is to understand the entire universe."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."
Wigner, Eugene
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"What is important is not the answer, but the method of arriving at the answer."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The pursuit of knowledge is the noblest endeavor."
Wigner, Eugene
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"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."
Bohr, Niels
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"Isolated knowledge is not sufficient. We need wisdom."
Bohr, Niels
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"The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot operate outside the natural laws."
Bohr, Niels
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is the highest calling."
Bohr, Niels
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"The complexity of the world is matched only by the capacity of the human mind to understand it."
Bohr, Niels
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"The most general principle of quantum mechanics is the superposition principle."
Dirac, Paul