Quotes About Limitation

You know more than you say and I say more than I know. That means we're a perfect match, as long as we don't hang around one another more than an hour at a stretch.

Most of the time, the only thing stopping us is ourselves.

moat. It's a stark reminder that there is no getting in or out

One room, two beds, babe. That's the best I can do.

You can fill a glass full to the brim with milk, and fill another glass of the same size brim full of popcorn, and then you can put all the popcorn kernel by kernel into the milk, and the milk will not run over. You cannot do this with bread. Popcorn and milk are the only two things that will go into the same place.

He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then he tried to lift my bag. My God, he said. What happened? I found out one may check out twenty books at a time from the school library.

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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

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