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Quotes About Revelation

He broke through the barriers of the skies.
~ William Herschel
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.
~ Mark Twain
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
~ John D. Barrow
The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.
~ Adrian Rogers
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?
~ Carl Sagan
I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.
~ Brit Marling
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
~ Jean Rostand
Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
~ Warren Weaver
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.
~ Abraham Pais
The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
~ Joseph Silk
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
~ Bertrand Russell
When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.
~ Anton Chekhov
I see they found out the universe is 80 million years older than we thought. It's also been lying about its weight.
~ Bill Maher
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.
~ George Iles
My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.
~ Howard Bloom
God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)
~ Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
~ Seneca
She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.
~ Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
It is not so much being all that you dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering your being.
~ Sépi
Light brings us the news of the Universe.
~ William Henry Bragg