Stephen Fry Quotes

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proved.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

No one knows anything for sure.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.

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.

The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.