Information Science Quotes

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.