Logo
Quote by Denis Diderot
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observat

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot

Other quotes by Denis Diderot

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Order
Author
Denis Diderot
Read Quote

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a mans name live for thousands of years. – Denis Diderot

Category:
Art
Author
Denis Diderot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. – Bruce Lee

Category:
Knowledge

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. – Ella Maillart

Category:
Knowledge

With all due respect to lawyers, its wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. – Sonny Bono

Category:
Knowledge

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

Theres really no point in having children if youre not going to be home enough to father them. – Anthony Edwards

Category:
Home

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. – Italo Calvino

Category:
Storytelling

Life is just one damned thing after another! – Author unknown, c.1909, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/02/life-one

Category:
Life
[N]egative experiences… and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people. – Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart

Category:
Inner Child