Quotes About Boundaries

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

You're impinging on my private space," I said, inching backward. Patch gave a barely-there smile. "Impinging? This isn't the SAT, Nora.

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

My happiness is not free to everyone...Abuse my smile and it will cost you...

The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England ... [and] ... believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.

A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to publicly expose the private, and for wiping away from public communication anything that resists being reduced to private confidences, together with those who refuse to confide them.

What can come?" my grandson Sam asked, when he was very young, after his mother had warned him not to go into the woods after dark. What can come? This was a brilliant question. Can is scarier than will. What will come limits itself. What can come has no boundaries.

What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.