#unknow

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#philosophy #science #unknowing #science

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#the-unknowable #effort

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it. ↗

— Fritz Leiber

#supernatural #unknown #supernatural

Probability is an inexact science ↗

— Brendan Curry

#knight #probability #unknown #science

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada. ↗

— Samantha Bee

#film #film industry #i #industry #television

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#economy #enthusiasm #entire #five #great

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#beaten #becomes #champion #filled #general