Quotes About Incomplete

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.

does not even try to give us complete information about the events around us—it gives information about the correlations between

The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

Power and control are an illusion, all we have are the relationship of measured things and incomplete descriptions.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

Was I happy after that? I think so. I experienced moments of pleasure, moments of unforgettable joy; I loved again and dreamed again like a wide-eyed boy. And yet I always felt there was something missing, something that left me somehow crippled, in short that I only every hovered on the fringes of happiness.

tiles short of a watertight roof.

mis recuerdos que al igual que tantas de mis pertenencias me sirven tan sólo a mí y se hacen inútiles si yo me muero, no sólo desaparece quien soy sino quien he sido, no sólo yo, pobre Marta, sino mi memoria entera, un tejido discontinuo y siempre inacabado y cambiante y estampado de sietes

A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... (but) it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses... (art must be like, ed.) fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant or a child in its mothers womb.

Postmodern science - by concerning itself with such things as undecidables, the limits of precise control, conflicts characterized by incomplete information, "fracta", catastrophes, and pragmatic paradoxes - is theorizing its own evolution as discontinuous, catastrophic, nonrectifiable, and paradoxical.

When she thinks of this, she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

Every incomplete promise, commitment, or agreement saps your strength because it blocks your momentum and chokes off your ability to move forward, progress, or improve.

Half a baked cake may not be enough to feed a wedding party, but it's enough to taste and leave everyone looking forward to the rest of the cake.

the one I await. You don't think he'll come? I do. He promised. That's my power over him; without me his fate would be incomplete. Whether he likes it or not, I am the keeper of his promise. Should I die before him, without first returning to him his bond and his freedom, his secret would lose its meaning.

It's a happy life and someone is missing.

she never quite completes her sentence but is always almost

Indubbiamente ciascun essere ha, nell'universo dei libri, un'opera che lo trasforma in lettore, posto che il destino favorisca il loro incontro. Quello che Platone disse della metà amorosa - l'altro che circola chissà dove e che conviene trovarlo, salvo restare incompleti fino al giorno del trapasso - è ancora più vero per il libri

Ha de sobrarme la mitad del lecho, y ha de faltarme la mitad del alma.

You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.

Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly affected by choices I made, by how many facts I chose to study.

But when didn't a lifetime feel unfinished?

Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino