Isaac Newton Quotes

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

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

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

The more you learn, the more you learn you don't know.

You can learn more about anything, and the truth about almost anything is surprising.