#knowledge

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#foresight #knowledge #nature

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ↗

— Hippocrates

#knowledge #opinion #science #science

Knowledge: knowledge can be dangerous, dangerous for you or for others interacting with you, therefore again dangerous for you. Always treat it with respect. ↗

— Florian Armas

#respect

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#ignorance #knowledge #open-mindedness #science #willful-ignorance

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! ↗

— Claudius Galenus

#learning #science #truth #science

Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#knowledge #spiritual #science

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance. ↗

— Francis S. Collins

#biology #dna #hubris #human-genome #ignorance

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#knowledge #science #science

Size does matter. Nano even better. ↗

— Toba Beta

#science #technology #science

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#ignorance