Illuminating the Unknown Quotes

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.