knowledge Quotes

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard.