James Dwight Dana Quotes

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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

The world is not always ours to understand.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

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

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes - there is more to the world than just human evil.

Some things are beyond human understanding.

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

the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.