Huston Smith Quotes

Science is but an image of the truth.

You only know what you know.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.