Lao Tzu Quotes

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Horror

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
  • Science
  • Loved

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Day

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Science

• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

  

  Pietro Aretino
  • Live
  • Heart
  • May

• When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

  

  Diogenes
  • Men
  • Science

• I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Brother
  • Friendship

• I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Deep
  • Pink

• You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Studying