Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else’s shoes, and identify and reject false choices.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

The less you know, the more you believe.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.