Rudy Rucker Quotes

And seek for truth in the groves of Academy

Knowledge is one of the wondrous gifts of God. It is incumbent upon everyone to acquire it.

If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I took all the philosophy courses I could.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

The Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the Author of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.