Quotes About Revelation

My friends must all have known all along. Yet nobody breathed a word. But of course, the truth is that nobody ever does breathe a word, nobody interferes, nobody whispers while the acrobat is on the tight-rope; they just sit and watch the spectacle, waiting only to be wise after the event.

famous novel about us all, things began in exactly this way. I was strangely echoing his protagonist, summoned to the bedside of a dying friend (this was the difference) who had important things to reveal to him. Sylvie was there, too, in the centre of the picture as she always has been. Her madness was touchingly described. Of course in a way the characters were travesties of us; but the incidents were true enough and so was Verfeuille, the old chateau

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, 'S-C-I-E-N-C-E' but a book of Signs 'S-I-G-N-S

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Madness, and then illumination.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.