Quotes about Knowledge
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
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
— George Bernard Shaw
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.
— Hippocrates
'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
— William James
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
— Thomas Jefferson
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
— Seneca