Alexis Ohanian Quotes

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

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.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

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

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.

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.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Not all the vital questions have been settled.

No one will ever know the complete truth.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

I have never met anyone who wasn't confused inside.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

There are always loose ends in real life.