Quotes about Knowledge
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
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