Knowledge Quotes

"If you understand something deeply, you should be able to explain it simply."

"Understanding requires not just calculation but deep contemplation."

"In pursuing answers, we discover that each answer generates new and deeper questions."

"The goal of physics is not prediction alone, but true understanding of natural phenomena."

"The arithmetical symbol zero is a most useful invention; but do not make a philosophical fuss about the fact that there is no nothingness."

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

"When we get down to any specific event, it becomes a matter of individual particulars; and every such particular can conceivably be known."

"What we mean by 'understanding' in physics is that we have achieved a consistent description of nature."

"Science does not so much aim at an exhaustive knowledge of the individual facts as at an understanding of the connection between them."

"The great progress of science is built upon the recognition of errors made by those who went before us."

"The physicist's understanding of his own experiment is part of the science."

"Science never proves anything absolutely; it only provides evidence."

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents eventually die."

"The difficulty in quantum mechanics lies not in the conceptual or mathematical framework but in the interpretation."

"We cannot know the present state of the world with sufficient precision to predict the future."

"In each age of the world distinct kinds of things are discovered and with the discovery each comes not merely new facts, but with them also new principles."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."

"We should not assume that the laws of physics known to us today will hold in the future."

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

"The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple concepts."

"The task is not to understand nature, but to learn to ask nature the right questions."

"The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we have not yet learned to ask."

"It is the tension between opposing ideas that produces knowledge."

"Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding."

"Mathematical knowledge brings freedom from confusion."

"Each mathematical truth reveals new layers of complexity."

"The knowledge mathematics provides is liberating."

"Mathematics is the foundation of all knowledge."

"We must know. We will know."

"There is no ignorabimus in mathematics."