Jonathan Swift Quotes

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

Greater even than the greatest discovery is to keep open the way to future discovery.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow."

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Truths kindle light for truths.

Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.