Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Experience is a great teacher.

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.