Top 19 Scientific Knowledge Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Scientific Knowledge Quotes from famous people such as Nate Silver, Talcott Parsons, Richard Cobden, Jean Piaget, Stanley B. Prusiner, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
Nate Silver
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
Talcott Parsons
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
Richard Cobden
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Jean Piaget
While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.
Stanley B. Prusiner
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
William John Wills
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.
Lisa Randall
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
Harriet Martineau
Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.
Alexandra Elbakyan
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
Asa Gray
Our collective scientific knowledge of COVID-19 continues to grow.
Theresa Tam
Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.
Henry Petroski
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He’s always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank
With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.
Jacque Fresco
Einstein’s results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
Imre Lakatos
If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.
Michael Nielsen
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own… the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
Paul Kalanithi