Max Tegmark Quotes

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

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.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

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

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

I tend to think that the best face of humanity is that we learn. We explore, we study, we think.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

It is men of science who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.

Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

All human progress is preceded by new questions

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. 5

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.