Quotes about Knowledge
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
- Stephen Jay Gould
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
- Adrian Rogers
The most excellent study of expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.
- JI Packer
Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
- Aldous Huxley
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
- Walt Whitman
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
- Calvin Coolidge
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
- Mortimer Adler
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
- Thomas Paine
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion
- Stephen Jay Gould
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
- Samuel Johnson
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen