Omniscient Quote by Vernor Vinge Download Open image “How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.” — Vernor Vinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Omniscient Perspective Quails Viewpoints
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we have already formed about him, and in the complete… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Our understanding, great as it sometimes seems, can be nothing but the wide-eyed wonder of the child when measured against omniscience. — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation… — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Over the last few weeks, some newsgroups have been full of tales of war and battle fleets, of billions dying in the clash of… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
The Bible does not profess to make men omniscient, but simply to tell them enough to make them happy and good, if they will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works did really… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
“What was glimpsed in Aquarius—what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned—is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions. — John Cole Copy Share Image
It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it. — Arthur Herzog Copy Share Image
When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
That's why the army sends all its future generals to what we call "charm school." As soon as you are a general, people think… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
