A. S. Byatt Quotes

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

Write about what you want to know.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

There are always things that you want to know more about.

It's so empowering to know the truth and to really understand something.

Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it.

People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.

Data can set you free.

Science is a quest for understanding.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

...do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline?

Knowledge always liberates.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

Late, I learned that when reason died, then Wisdom was born; before that liberation, I had only knowledge.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.