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“If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.”

Ifs God Would Be Science Religion Knowledge Doubt

“By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.”

Knows Men Years Would Be Science Understanding Knowledge Alive Students Physics Decent Newton Eighteen Imbeciles Eighteen Years Old

Author:C.P. Snow

“The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.”

Way Would Be Knowledge Overcoming Shame Charm

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.”

Ifs Men Would Be Knowledge Understood Men And Women Unhappy

Author:Mason Cooley

“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”

Mind Has Beens Ends Would Be Action Forget Rooms Knowledge Knowing Learning Constitution Sake Fortunate Merciful Rubbish

Author:Anna Brackett

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”

Humans Would Be Spirit Knowledge Virtue Ignorance Barriers Superstitions Virgins Human Spirit Virginity Infantile

Author:Voltaire

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

Would Be Able Education Knowledge Learning Teaching Masters Losing Chinese Superior Man

Book:Lun Yü

Source: Lun Yü

“Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.”

“Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.”

“For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.”

Thinking Would Be Science Universe Heaven Known Knowledge Fit Ideals Weak Boring Boredom Dull Coincidence Theologian Static

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”

Giving Would Be Science Sound Ability Perfect Knowledge Doubt Impossible Ignorance Theory Capacity Infinite Method Convinced Certainty Probability Infinite Knowledge

Author:William Stanley Jevons

“It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.”

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Author:Louis Agassiz

“Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.”

Knows World Real Problem Would Be Science Values Pleasure Knowledge Solutions Discovery Accounts Real Value

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.”

Knows Facts Would Be Science Knowledge Theory Essence Accounts Worthy Scientific Knowledge Madhouses

Author:Oliver Heaviside

“If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.”

People Ifs Wells Wisdom Would Be Science Knowledge Medicine Protection Being The Best Physicians

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.”

Ifs Real Whole Would Be Young Science Next Answers Common Knowledge Teaching Grew Ought Grew Up Accounts Method Population Backgrounds Objectives Common Sense Discovering Scientific Method

Author:Elihu Thomson

“...monetary exchanges have interesting things in common; Gresham's law, if true, says what one of these interesting things is. But what is interesting about monetary exchanges is surely not their commonalities under physical description. A natural kind like a monetary exchange could turn out to be co-extensive with a physical natural kind; but if it did, that would be an accident on a cosmic scale.”

Ifs Mind Kind Would Be Law Turns Natural Interesting Common Knowledge Accidents Scales Description Cosmic Interesting Things Monetary Commonality

Author:Jerry Fodor

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