More quotations tagged with “knowledge”
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
—Matt Cartmill
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.
—Jacques Cousteau
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
—Blaise Pascal
If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others.
—Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
—Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man