“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hit…”— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com
“The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness towards light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer man.”— Fridtjof Nansen, en.wikiquote.org
“How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God i…”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature of all that the Lord has taken the pains to make is not essential to the completeness of that unit—the cosmos? The universe would be incomplete without man; but it would also be incomplete wit…”— John Muir, amazon.com
“It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“You don’t have to know everything, as long as you know people who know the things you don’t.”— Harvey Mackay, harveymackay.com
“Human lives are only error And with knowledge, death prevails.”— Friedrich Schiller, schillerinstitute.org
“Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.”— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com
“When was the last time you heard two pundits on mainstream television or radio news with even the slightest bit of leeway or self-doubt in their opinion?”— Sali Hughes, the-pool.com
“The historian serves no one well by constructing a specious continuity between the present world and that which preceded it. On the contrary, we require a history that will educate us to discontinuity more than ever before; for discontinuity, disruption, and chaos is our lot.”— Hayden White, abuss.narod.ru
“History has become increasingly the refuge of all of those 'sane' men who excel at finding the simple in the complex and the familiar in the strange.”— Hayden White, abuss.narod.ru
“It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“The reason that Harry Potter can withstand Voldemort is that he's got a piece of him. He's been touched by it. The way you keep psychopaths at bay is to develop the inner psychopath so you know one when you see one. That's a voluntary thing, a set of tools you have at your disposal, which is a full…”— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com
“The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“For the Members of the Assembly having before their eys so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their…”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Oh, to be sure, there is much we do not understand. The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem … but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers chan…”— George R. R. Martin, Maester Luwin, amazon.com
“Libraries are time-machines. Libraries are wildwoods. Libraries are galaxies. Libraries are magic portals into learning & dreaming. Libraries are vital for social mobility.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com