science,knowledge Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

2. A man of logic is a man of sin.

3. All inquiries carry with them some element of risk. Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

4. And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit. Chaos & Cyber Culture

5. Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.

6. As a chief ingredient in the mythology of science, the accumulation of objective facts supposedly controls the history of conceptual change–as logical and self-effacing scientists bow before the dictates of nature and willingly change their views to accommodate the growth of conceptual knowledge. The paradigm for such an idealistic notion remains Huxley’s famous remark about a beautiful theory killed by a nasty, ugly little fact. But single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away (and properly so, for the majority of deeply anomalous observations turn out to be wrong)...Anomalous facts get incorporated into existing theories, often with a bit of forced stretching to be sure, but usually with decent fit because most worldviews contain considerable flexibility. (How else could they last so long, or be so recalcitrant to overthrow?) Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

7. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future. The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer

8. I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I'm a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.

9. I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

10. I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

11. I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

12. If in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, behold the passing away of this world and this time! مثنوی معنوی

13. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. The Descent of Man

14. Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.

15. It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

16. It's not about winning or loosing; it's about realizing who- and why we are.

17. Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.

18. Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

19. Most people would rather believe something that is not true about something than accept the fact that they do not understand a thing about that thing.

20. Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full. The Book of Fires

21. One of the beautiful parts of science is that it allows us to query/question God at His level.

22. Science is a finite sphere that grows in infinite space; each new expansion makes it include a larger zone of the unknown, but the unknown is inexhaustable. Selected Non-Fictions

23. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

24. Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

25. Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

26. Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Journey to the Center of the Earth

27. Size does matter.Nano even better. Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

28. Sometimes when I'm having a boring interview on the telephone, and I'm trying to think about something else because the questions are too boring, and I start looking around the room where I work, you know, full of books piled up to the sky, all different kinds of topics. I start calculating how many centuries would I have to live reading twenty-four hours a day every day of the week to make a dent in what I'd like to learn about things, it's pretty depressing.[...] You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything... and know that we don't, that's the important part.

29. Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

30. The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.