Quotes About Purpose

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

For who would live if life held no allurements?

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.