S.E. Cupp Quotes

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.

We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.

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

There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

But that's a part of life; you're going through and nothing ever works out how you wanted. Nothing ever completed cleanly the way that you wanted. It is sloppy and messy, and when you think it's over, 'Oh great. We have a bit more to do.' There's always another bit of road ahead, even when you think you've gotten to the end.

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

This age is fraught with limitless perils, as well as untold possibilities.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

Then I felt too that I might take this opportunity to tie up a few loose ends, only of course loose ends can never be properly tied, one is always producing new ones. Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgements on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning, whatever art may otherwise pretend in order to console us.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.

Whatever we thought was certain is no longer certain, and therefore in science probably certain things must be correct, but in human behaviour I am not so sure.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.