Quotes about Knowledge
It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
- Max Born
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
- George Bernard Shaw
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
- CS Lewis
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
- Francis Collins
Experience alone can decide on truth.
- Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
Men study science as god not the God of science.
- Adrian Rogers
Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
- Abraham Kuyper
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
- Carl Sagan
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.
- Stephen Hawking
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
- Cicero