Quotes about Knowledge

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

The love of truth is an act of the spirit.