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“There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.”

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Book:A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

Source: A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

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Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.”

Source: Schools and Universities on the Continent

“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”

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Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.”

Source: Against Method

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”

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Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

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Book:Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

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Book:History of Western Philosophy

Source: History of Western Philosophy

“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”

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Author:Charles Kettering