humility Quotes

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.