Alexander Pope Quotes

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

A humble scientist is a good scientist.

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.

There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.

As a true scientist, I have been proved wrong so many times that I'm very humble.