Quotes About Limitation

Tools exist for only one reason: to force the universe into unnatural shapes.

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

The AIs claimed to have worked it out, then announced they couldn't explain it to us. Gödel was right after all: No system can fully understand itself.

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Vede insieme l'uno e l'altro polo, Le stelle vaghe e lor viaggio torto; E vedi, 'I veder nostro quanto e corto. (You see both poles at once, the travelling stars in their winding courses, and you see just how limited our seeing really is.)

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

Space and resources preclude an exhaustive or even an extensive comparative

The problem, however, comes within the reach of possible solution, if we distinguish between sovereignty as an inherent power, and the exercise of sovereignty. God may limit the exercise of his sovereignty to make room for the free action of his creatures. It is by his sovereign decree that man is free. Without such self-limitation he could not admonish men to repent and believe. Here, again, the Calvinistic logic must either bend or break.

Falsehood is merely limitation, the incomplete understanding of the absolute. This entails that, for Hegel, falsified scientific theories are not in themselves wholly wrong, but merely do not tell the whole story. They are limited conceptions of a more all-embracing truth.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Whereas for him there's a barrier, an impenetrable wall, forbidding him to deviate from what has been predetermined. Whenever he mentions this question of the forbidden I will try in vain to show him that he's wrong.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

How often – even before we began – have we declared a task "impossible"? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate? . . . A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.

The moon's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're mental giants, but it's very limiting.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.

Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

To be honest, I'm not really prepared to do a musical, simply because I think I have a pretty atrocious voice.

Once the world sees you as that one thing, and the better you are at that thing, the more you can only be that thing.

Actors have limited time. We also have a shelf life.

The sun can't shine forever.