Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

How could I say that I wished to penetrate the secrets of the mountains in search of something still unknown that, like the yeti, might well be missed for the very fact of searching?

Nature tells every secret once.

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

Science is about unravelling nature.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

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.

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

We have discovered the secret of life.

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.