Nigel Kneale Quotes

I don't know what's up there / Beyond the sky

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

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

The universe is a great mystery.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

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 are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

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

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.