Quotes by Scientist

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom