Knowledge - Quotes
The things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What`s left is magic. And it doesn`t work.
In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.
No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is drowned in ignorance.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith. Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad - but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.