Science Quote by Tim Page

“Satisfy people's desire for the ridiculous and they will accept your idea of the sublime.”

— Maurice Willson Disher

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to teach us what we need to know.”

— Pema Chödrön

“In other words, scientists don't concentrate on what they know, which is considerable but also miniscule, but rather on what they don't know. The…

— Stuart Firestein

“Being profound and seeming profound.— Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to…

— Jane Porter

“This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.”

— Bryant McGill

“When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a…

— Jay Woodman

“Every person wishes to know of the proposals, the learned, and the ignorant. The learned understands the work proposed-he understands at least something, partly,…

— Ross King

“We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series…

— Anne Rice

“Without failure, we forget, in arrogance, that our understanding of things is never as complete as we think it is.”

— Scott Berkun

“And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in…

— Charles Dickens