William Harvey Quotes

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

It is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.