Quotes About Hope

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Science is the only savior.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.