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  • Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

    Science   Reality   Facts  
    1651 Leviathan, pt.1, ch.5.
  • I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • ...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge.

    Risk   Islam   Assuming  
  • Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

    Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin
  • Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

    Electromagnetic Theory Chapter I, Introduction (p. 12)
  • The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

    Lying   Men   Effort  
  • Let's imagine again an observer looking at us without any preconceptions. I think he would be struck by the fact that although human beings have the capacity to develop scientific knowledge, it must be a very limited capacity because it is only done in very narrow and specific domains.

    Source: chomsky.info
  • Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

  • The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

    "Interview with the 1988 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Jack Steinberger". 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, www.nobelprize.org. July 2008.
  • The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.

    Oswald Chambers (1935). “The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers: My Utmost for His Highest; Selections for the Year”
  • During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

    Knowledge   Science   Men  
    Isaac Asimov (1968). “The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences”
  • Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

  • If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.

    Heart   Caring   Humanity  
  • Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  • As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

    Adventure   World   Care  
  • During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

    Book   Order   Ideas  
    Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”
  • Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.

    Egypt   Land   Names  
    Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.438, Courier Corporation
  • The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

    Love   Knowledge   Garden  
  • In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

  • The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.

    Art   Knowledge   Science  
  • The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

    Knowledge   Science   Doe  
  • Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

    Self   Marketing   Noise  
    Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin
  • What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

  • Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

  • On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

  • Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.

  • Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

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