Quotes About Limit

Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

But you've never even been as far as the Moon.

Europeans knew little about the ocean beyond latitude 27°N, marked by Cape Bojador in West Africa.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

What prompts so many commentators to speak of the 'end of history', of post-modernity, 'second modernity' and 'surmodernity', or otherwise to articulate the intuition of a radical change in the arrangement of human cohabitation and in social conditions under which life-politics is nowadays conducted, is the fact that the long effort to accelerate the speed of movement has presently reached its 'natural limit' .

We only have so much time, Mary," I remember saying. "Time will kill you – it really will.

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary.

Time shell be the limit of my suffering.

The universe could be infinite in extent, but we cannot see beyond a certain distance because there hasn't been enough time since the Big Bang for light to have traveled from there to here.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

And we can pray only when we realize that we cannot do anything, that we have reached our limit, that someone else must make that new beginning.