Quotes About Paradox

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

To fall for the notion of a 'double truth' and argue there was one set of truths for reason and another for faith and never the two shall meet made nonsense of the idea of truth itself.

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

Life without death simply isn't life, but death

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

Bees die with the burnt honey at their mouths, at least.

Maybe I had found true love. Not that true love is a bitter, rotten dead monkey in a box. But then again, maybe.

He said maybe irony is the lens through which we see the picture in reverse

a saint with the heart of a devil, or a fiend with the soul of a saint.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

Why love the god all gods detest?

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

In our overcommunicated society, the paradox is that nothing is more important than communication.