Joseph Glanvill Quotes

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

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

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

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.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

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

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

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

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

There are many things that I don't understand.

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.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.