Scientific Knowledge Quotes

“I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Raw and the Cooked

“Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact…”
― Charles Babbage, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England

“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.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

“There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Since the notion of quality, as understood by [the Swedish Research Council], is supposed to ignore practical applicability, quality as the sole selection criterion means that we value the production of new knowledge and its own right, rather than just a means towards attaining other goals. I have long been – and still am – highly sympathetic to this romantic view of knowledge and intellectual achievements. To improve our understanding of the world we live in really is one of the most magnificent and worthy the goals of human activity one can think of. And yet, it is not the only worthy goal. A bright future for humanity, where everyone has the best possible prospects of leading a happy and prosperous life, and where such things as poverty, pain and misery are reduced to a minimum, seems like another goal worth striving for, at least as important as the quest for ever-increasing knowledge.”
― Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity

“Science is good, is not God. ~_~”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Developing a Scientific perspective in your mind is more important than having a theoretical knowledge in the specific field of science.”
― Shubham Sanap

“Scientific knowledge without solid theory is like a tree with shallow roots that succumbs to the storms it faces. Without practical application, however, it is like a dry tree that denies its shade on days of scorching sun.”
― Prof. Vinícius Montgomery de Miranda

“As a chief ingredient in the mythology of science, the accumulation of objective facts supposedly controls the history of conceptual change–as logical and self-effacing scientists bow before the dictates of nature and willingly change their views to accommodate the growth of conceptual knowledge. The paradigm for such an idealistic notion remains Huxley’s famous remark about “a beautiful theory killed by a nasty, ugly little fact.” But single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away (and properly so, for the majority of deeply anomalous observations turn out to be wrong)...

Anomalous facts get incorporated into existing theories, often with a bit of forced stretching to be sure, but usually with decent fit because most worldviews contain considerable flexibility. (How else could they last so long, or be so recalcitrant to overthrow?)”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Shallow scientific knowledge and poor theological understanding plus charisma equals to self anointed conspiracy theorist”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Humanity without science is fragile, science without humanity is lethal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Des résultats qui apparaissent pour la première fois dans des rapports ou des livres, même à gros tirage, n'ont aucune fiabilité. Tout simplement parce que ces publications n'ont pas passé le filtre du contrôle par les pairs. Les éditeurs n'ont évidemment pas la capacité d'expertise du monde académique et leur premier souci est plus de s'assurer du potentiel de vente d'un livre que de la parfaite légitimité scientifique des arguments que l'on y trouve. Par ailleurs, un livre qui se glorifie de présenter des résultats s'opposant au consensus, ou à la pensée unique ou à l'idéologie dominante, a toutes les chances d'être une imposture scientifique.”
― Pierre Cahuc, Le Négationnisme économique. Et comment s'en débarrasser (ESSAIS)

“Why do people have to die for us to open our eyes! If we still fail to heed reason, nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“A scientist works to preserve life, Politician plays publicity with death.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Average scientists seek answers,
Great scientist seeks questions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“I can see no more reason for preferring the theories of fifty years ago than for preferring the observational data of fifty years ago.”
― Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Expanding Universe: Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931

“Who is a revolutionary?

What is a revolution? And who is a revolutionary? A revolutionary is one who has got the idea that the world can be remade, made better than it is today; that is was not created by a supernatural power, and therefore could be remade by human efforts. A revolutionary further starts with the knowledge that the world has been remade time and again, and that the process of remaking the world takes place of necessity. Those Indians who have felt the necessity of remaking our country, and are convinced that the people of India have the power to do so, are revolutionaries. One cannot be a revolutionary, without possessing scientific knowledge. One must have the conviction that not only human beings can remake the world, can make and unmake gods, but ever since the birth of the race have been doing that. Human nature is to set up gods, topple them down, and set up new ones.”
― M N Roy