expanding understanding Quotes

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

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.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

The fate of the paranormal is to become the normal as our horizons of understanding expand.

Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations of the Spirit. Remember, it was the questions young Joseph asked that opened the door for the restoration of all things. We can block the growth and knowledge our Heavenly Father intends for us. How often has the Holy Spirit tried to tell us something we needed to know but couldn't get past the massive iron gate of what we thought we already knew?

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.