Knowledge Quotes - Page 28

• Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

  Grove Karl Gilbert

  Science, Progress, Speed

  Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”

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• From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.

  John Gorrie

  Art, Determination, Science

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• I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Believe, Science, Certain

  "The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought". Book by Jacques Roger, letter to Pierre Perrault, 1997.

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• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Believe, Science, Men

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• If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

  J. H. Hexter

  Communication, Science, Past

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• If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Science, Limits, Concerned

  Rudolf Virchow, Frank CHANCE (1860). “Cellular Pathology as based upon physiological and pathological histology. Twenty lectures delivered in ... 1858. Translated from the second edition of the original by F. Chance. With notes and numerous emendations principally from MS. notes of the author, and illustrated by ... engravings on wood.”, p.10

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• In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and the causes of phenomena, and applies itself to the study of their laws - that is, their invariable relations of succession and resemblance. Reasoning and observation, duly combined, are the means of this knowledge. What is now understood when we speak of an explanation of facts is simply the establishment of a connection between single phenomena and some general facts.

  Auguste Comte

  Mean, Science, Law

  "Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings".

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• In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.

  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Science, Facts, Chemistry

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• In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

  Alfred Romer

  Loss, Science, Paleontology

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• It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.

  Philip Kitcher

  Science, Curiosity, May

  Philip Kitcher (1997). “The Lives to Come”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

  Ernest Nagel

  Science, Organization, Goal

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• It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

  Michel Foucault

  Science, Essentials, Might

  Michel Foucault (1987). “Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.

  Jean-Andre Deluc

  Real, Science, Moments

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• Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically decorous and methodologically unimpeachable, but conclusions are often trivial and rarely useful in decision making. This results from an overly rigorous control of an insignificant variable and a widespread deficiency in the framing of pertinent questions. Investigators seem to have settled for what is measurable instead of measuring what they would really like to know.

  Edmund Pellegrino

  Science, Data, Pertinent Questions

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• My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

  Ivan Sechenov

  Science, Tasks, Possibility

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• Science is public, not private, knowledge.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Accounts, Knows

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• Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

  Moses Harvey

  Love, Truth, Believe

  Moses Harvey (1886). “Where are We and Whither Tending?: Three Lectures on the Reality and Worth of Human Progress”

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• Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience in terms of its purpose and meaning for themselves. The development that led to more adequate knowledge and increasing control of nature was therefore, considered from one aspect, also a development toward greater self-control by men.

  Norbert Elias

  Science, Men, Self

  Norbert Elias (1982). “The history of manners”, Random House Inc

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• The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an important component.

  Bengt I. Samuelsson

  Science, Discovery, Imagination

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• The first business of a man of science is to proclaim the truth as he finds it, and let the world adjust itself as best it can to the new knowledge.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Science, Men, Firsts

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• The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The second thing he must do is to make the utmost possible use of the knowledge he has and not waste his energy crying for the moon. The third thing he must do is try and see clearly where his knowledge ends and his ignorance begins.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Ignorance, Science, Moon

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• The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.

  Auguste Comte

  Science, Law, Three

  Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.68, Transaction Publishers

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• The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

  John N. Bahcall

  Science, Discovery, Important

  Obituary at CalTech, September 7, 2005.

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• The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an hypothesis adapted to the explanation of chemical phenomena... whether a further development of the atomic hypothesis promises to advance our knowledge of the mechanism of chemical phenomena... I rather expect that we shall some day find, for what we now call atoms, a mathematico-mechanical explanation, which will render an account of atomic weight, of atomicity, and of numerous other properties of the so-called atoms.

  August Kekule

  Science, Promise, Atoms

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• The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out of space research have come new knowledge, techniques and instruments which have enabled some bedridden invalids to walk, the totally deaf to hear, the voiceless to talk, and, in the foreseeable future, may even make it possible for the blind to "see."

  Hubertus Strughold

  Science, Technology, Men

  "From Outer Space - Advances For Medicine on Earth" by Hubertus Strughold, contributed in "Space, Its Impact on Man and Society" by Lillian Levy, (p. 117), 1965.

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