Quotes About Limitations

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

not to mention forever – since they fear that such a state may bring burdens and cause strains they neither feel able nor are willing to bear, and so may severely limit the freedom they need – yes, your

es muy probable que el último cuarto del siglo en curso pase a la historia como la Gran Guerra de Independencia del Espacio. Lo que sucedió en su transcurso fue que los centros de decisión y los cálculos que fundamentan sus decisiones se liberaron consecuente e inexorablemente de las limitaciones territoriales, las impuestas por la localidad.

The brutal limitations placed on women's emotions, the pseudo-psychiatric judgements and labelling and the herding of women into therapy and psychiatry, calls attention to the fact that women are still the second sex, a sex that is denied the full range of human emotions.

Biz insanlar evrenin belli gerçeklerini ölçebilecek becerilere sahip deÄŸiliz. Yani, olaylar her ne kadar rastgele görünse de tamamen fiziksel gerçekliklerle koÅŸulland?r?lm??lard?r ve böyle belirlenirler.

It's never enough, Ciro. Never enough. Believe me, eventually, you run out of ways to make a woman happy.

Not all creatures can become as great as they think.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.