Knowledge Quotes

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions."

- Grace Hopper

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration."

- Nikola Tesla

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."

- Wilbur Wright

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."

- Veronica Roth

"Except what Allah should will. Indeed, He knows what is declared and what is hidden."

- Quran

"The accounting is the best place to start because it’s the purest form of finance. You can’t fool it; it’s empirical."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

- Albert Einstein

"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."

- Keith Richards

"Nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception."

- Zeno of Citium

"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

- Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

- Isaac Newton

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

- Nicolaus Copernicus

"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

- Galileo

"The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting."

- Thomas Young

"It’s of no use whatsoever. This is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right - we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there."

- Heinrich Hertz

"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."

- Albert Einstein

"There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality."

- Robert Oppenheimer

"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."

- Peter Medawar

"Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future."

- Niels Bohr

"Physics is an honest craft; only when you learn this can you start philosophising about it."

- Werner Heisenberg to Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

"The history of the development of ideas is of all subjects that in which we, as thinking men, take the deepest interest."

- James Clerk Maxwell

"Hydrogen is the proper study of man."

- Dan Kleppner

"The best antidote to the philosophy of science is a knowledge of the history of science."

- Steven Weinberg

"A physicist is a mathematician with a feeling for reality."

- Norman Packard

"[L]et us hope that yet finer means of research and yet deeper chemical knowledge may make possible further improvements, yielding for mankind a more profound and far-reaching knowledge of the secrets of the wonderful Universe in which our lot is cast."

- Theodore William Richards

"Physical Chemistry is not just a branch on but the blossom of the tree of knowledge."

- Wilhelm Ostwald

"If you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."

- Richard Feynman

"And Allah created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop; then He made you mates. And no female conceives nor does she give birth except with His knowledge. And no aged person is granted [additional] life nor is his lifespan lessened but that it is in a register. Indeed, that for Allah is easy."

"It is He who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He knows what penetrates into the earth and what emerges from it and what descends from the heaven and what ascends therein; and He is with you wherever you are. And Allah, of what you do, is Seeing."