William Harvey Quotes

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Science is nothing but perception.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but the task of science.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Science is not wisdom.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.

Unless you have read and absorbed the best that can be read and absorbed, you will not think clearly or well.