Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.