Amount Quote by Thomas Huxley

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Huxley

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Sylvain Neuvel

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Carl Sagan

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

“Our house has its back to the sea,' writes Hester in her journal. 'Below us, the ocean spreads to the sky, twitching wide and…

— Tanya Moir

“The world is big but it is comprehensible," says R. Buckminster Fuller. But it seems to me that the world is not nearly big…

— Edward Abbey

All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

— William Harvey

“We are akin to the inhabitants of a small isolated island who have just invented the first boat, and are about to set sail…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

— Anna Freud

“...a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost;”

— John Milton

For those struggling in midstream, in great fear of the flood, of growing old and of dying for all those I say, an island…

— Gautama Buddha

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

— Karl Barth