Horace Mann Quotes

The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!

I'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

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

We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

It's a difficult business, finding out what's true about the world, the universe.

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our efforts to comprehend it, is the earth.