Do you know any aphorisms, old sayings, parables, folk proverbs, etc. on science, wisdom and knowledge, ...?
Please, quote.
Best wishes
Leading by example is not the main way to influence others; it's the only way.
Albert Einstein
An Iraqi saying that I don't like goes like: "A person who is one day older than you is one year wiser."
Żywot krótki wiele nauk potrzebuje '. Nie straci rozumu, kto go nie ma' . Mądry obiecuje, głupi się raduje.' Miłość o rozum nie pyta'. Mądremu niewiele trzeba mówić.' Mądrej głowy włosy się nie trzymają.' Mądrzy szczęście z sobą noszą.' Mądry nie powie, czego wprzód nie zważy.' Mądry na wszystkie strony się ogląda.' Mądra myszka w łapki nie wpadnie.' Ludzie, nauczając, uczą się. ' Lepszy czasem chłopski rozum bywa niż panskie nauki.' Jaki rozum, taka rada. Ile kto ma cierpliowści, tyle mądrości. ' Im puściej w głowie, tym szumniej w mowie. I mądry głupi, gdy go nędza złupi. I mądry głupieje, gdy pałkę zaleje. Gdzie szczęście panuje, tam rozum szwankuje'. Gdzie rozumu nie masz, tam i rządu. Gdzie rozumu więcej, tam i złość. Gdy włos siwieje, to rozum dojrzeje. .Czego rozum nie może, to często czas leczy'. Co u mądrych w myśli, to u głupich w ustach'. Co rozum, to zdanie. BUCHMANN. KSIĘGA PRZYSŁÓW. Przysłowia są mądrością narodów. Torun, 2009.
I know "Knowledge is power". I also know a more modern one which might be relevant in your case: "when you don't know something, just ask Google" haha.
Literal translation of above post by Alexander Maryukhin: The tree of science is the tree of life.
There is also the famous quote attributed to Plato:
"I know that I know nothing" (from the Latin: scio nescio)
During the Covid-19 pandemic I have been guided by words of Sir William Osler. Perhaps the greatest physician of modern medicine who ended his career as Professor of Medicine in Oxford.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. William Osler
The value of experience is not in seeing much but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
Listen to your patient; He’s telling you the diagnosis.
William Osler
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler
Donald Rumsfeld stated: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know."
Aggregation of marginal gains
Sir David Brailsford (British Cycling performance director) stated:
“If you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by one percent, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together”
This principle can be applied to performance management for almost anything
Hello Rajkumar Rajendram ,
Re your quote from Donald Rumsfeld, what about unknown unknowns, which is the largest class/type of knowledge. Or do you think that we have milked the universe dry of any of its mysteries?
Regards,
Tom Cuff
Hello Dariusz Prokopowicz ,
"Live and learn; die and forget."
Regards,
Tom Cuff
Donald Rumsfeld stated: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
Well spotted Thomas Cuff. One of my unknown unknowns was that I did not post the complete quote. I have corrected my error above.
"Today the real head of the family is the one who decides what program to set the television on." Peter Sellers
"Scientific progress is like an ancient road through the desert - dotted with crumbling skeletons of abandoned theories that seem to live forever when they arise." Arthur Koestler
"Random discoveries only happen to prepared minds." Blaise Pascal
"Making amazing discoveries is easy. It is much harder to refine them to the point where they can find practical application." Thomas Alva Edison
"Everyone knows that you can't do something. But by accident there is a dunce who doesn't know it. And he is making a discovery." Albert Einstein
"The task of science is to replace vision with facts and impressions with evidence." John Ruskin
"Constructing a complicated thing is a simple matter, but constructing a simple thing is a complicated matter." Murphy's law
Leading by example is not the main way to influence others; it's the only way.
Albert Einstein
This is a nice science related aphorism by Galileo : In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known..." - Carl Sagan,
"The most beautiful we can discover is mystery..." - Albert Einstein,
"You have to contemplate and think a lot. Those who think little lose a lot..." - Leonardo da Vinci,
"When I want to stimulate my brain to work, I turn on the computer. When I want to rest, I turn on the TV..." - Steve Jobs,
"Each cause creates more than one effect..." - Herbert Spencer,
"Those who do not love the truth seek a pretense to deny it in the multitude of those who deny it..." - Blaise Pascal,
"There is a presumption of the truth of the view held by many people, and by rejecting it, we should indicate some real or possible reason for his reign..." - John Stuart Mill,
"Time is a friend of an excellent enterprise and an enemy of the mediocre..." - Warren Buffett,
"Physics explores this world, while mathematics explores possible worlds." Clifford Taubes
Anger is a gust of wind that blows out the lamp of intelligence.
Robert Ingersoll
While fools decide, the intelligent deliberate.
Plutarch
(1) A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law. (3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Aphorisms by theme: Science. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
"The book is a gentle and sweet sage, empty life fills with light, and empty heart with emotion, love gives wings, and puts pressure on the hardships, introduces life into the dead of home and gives meaning to life." Kornel Makuszyński
"Civilization is power over the world, and culture is love for the world." Antoni Kępiński
"I think television educates. Every time someone turns on the TV, I go to the next room and read a book." Groucho Marx
"Handwritten letters now give the impression of greetings from the last century." Thornton Wilder
"Sleeping in front of the TV is sometimes the best praise of a program." Phil Bosmans
"I demand from the city where I live: asphalt, sewer, key to the gate, hot water. I am witty and cultured alone." Karl Kraus
"The value of a telephone is what two people have to say to each other." Oscar Wilde
The content of this aphorism has already partially become outdated. Current phones, i.e. mainly smartphones, are already less and less used for conversations while the use of various applications offering various information services available via the Internet is increasing. Dariusz Prokopowicz
Intelligence and common sense break through with few tricks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark.”
— Honoré de Balzac
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon reaches it.
Benjamin Franklin
"The mistakes of a young age devour the happiness of old age." Adolf Kolping
"A man is only young once. Later he has to look for another excuse." Ernest Hemingway
"Obstacles are terrible things that we see when we take our eyes off the target." James Stringham
"All the battles of our lives teach us something, even the ones we lost." Paulo Coelho
"Experience - an elegant name for all the unpleasantness that we have encountered in life." Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"The alley that you can back out is not dead." Stanisław Jerzy Lec
"The things that happen in our past remain ours by sharing them with others" - Lao Tzu
"Nature has placed in our minds an insatiable desire to see the truth."
Cicero
"Time is like the wind and we are like the waves." Algernon Charles Swinburne
"When people bring perfection to each other, they will finally tell each other what they think about themselves, from soul to soul." Stanisław Jerzy Lec
"A human being is a creature that changes intuitions into reality." Sakaguchi Ango
"How beautiful it would be in the world if people could see through the eyes of another human being." unknown author
"People are like a river: water is the same in all of them, but a river can be narrow, fast, wide, calm, clean, dark, cloudy, warm. It is the same with people." Lev Tolstoy
"The world is full of coldness because people do not dare to be as warm as they really are." Albert Schweitzer
"The fame of many people is that, by being able to do a lot of good, they ultimately did nothing wrong." Albert Einstein
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall".
Confucius
"Money is a good servant to man, but a bad master." Aleksander Dumas (son)
"Awareness of its existence only occurs in these exceptional situations when we exist." Dariusz Prokopowicz - ResearchGate (2020, July 16).
Just as iron rusts from lack of use, so inactivity destroys the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
The Messenger of God ( the prophet
Muhammad, peace be upon him) said: I seek knowledge even in China
"The more people I meet, the more I love animals." George Bernard Shaw
"Each Universe has its own time and calendar." Dariusz Prokopowicz - ResearchGate (2020, July 18).
The experience of the world does not consist in the quantity of things that have been seen, but in the quantity of things whose reflection has been fruitful.
Gottfried Leibnitz
"Man's greatness arises from the little things of life made with a big heart."
Pr. Stefan Wyszyński
"Ever since a man got on his hind legs, he can't get back to balance." Stanisław Jerzy Lec
"The strength of little people lies in their numbers." Alberto Moravia
"The clock only conventionally measures the passage of time that flows according the calendar of The Solar System in which we live and according to the physical processes that occur in it. In other worlds, constellations, planetary systems time can flow quite differently." Dariusz Prokopowicz - ResearchGate (2020, July 18).
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
“The truth is strengthened by investigation and procrastination; falsehood, with haste and uncertainty. ”
Tacit
"The cat lived great with the dog, but the mice didn't benefit from it." Stanisław Jerzy Lec
"Animals don't laugh. They understand the seriousness of life." Valeriu Butulescu
"Rain is a sewing machine that sews grain to the ground." Ramon Gomez de la Serna
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