Anthony Horowitz Quotes

As a number of people have stressed over the years, I think it would be premature to assume science itself will explain everything.

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don't know whether or not we know that we don't know it.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are

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.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

It is not possible to know what you need to learn.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very great steps in its direction and now discover we are still very far away from it. With the most rational philosophers an increase in their knowledge is always attended by an increased conviction of their ignorance.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

If you know everything, it's the end, no?

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.