Quotes About Purpose

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

A busy life is a wasted life.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing

All humans are insane, they exists because insanity exists.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him.

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.