Quotes About Humility

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

How can he possibly be humble? He hasn't done anything yet.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.

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.

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts.

Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.