The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

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

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.