#knowable

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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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

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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

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If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

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