Science Quotes

"If you cannot traverse an infinite series, then motion itself is a phantom of the mind."

"If things were infinite in number, they would be both infinitely great and infinitely small."

"The stadium paradox reveals the absurdity of measuring motion quantitatively."

"If time has parts, each part is infinitesimal; thus, no time passes."

"The mover must move through space; space is infinite; therefore, the mover is infinite."

"The stadium: bodies move past each other at double speed—yet speed itself is paradoxical."

"All becoming implies a time before becoming; all ceasing implies a time after ceasing."

"The arrow is at rest in each instant of its flight; rest is not motion; therefore, motion is not real."

"Science freed us from the bondage of superstition; use it wisely lest it become a new master."

"Science seeks to understand the mysteries nature guards."

"Science and wonder exist in equal measure in this world."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"The study of natural philosophy reveals the wonders hidden in the ordinary world."

"The study of distant stars reminds us how insignificant our petty concerns truly are."

"The paradox of the arrow: in each moment, the arrow occupies a space equal to itself; therefore, it cannot move."

"If a thing exists, it must have magnitude; but what has magnitude is divisible, and divisibility leads to infinity."

"If you divide something infinitely, you never reach an end—this is the nature of space."

"The stadium paradox reveals that spatial extension contains infinite divisibility."

"Every division of magnitude yields magnitude again; thus, magnitude is infinitely divisible."

"The arrow paradox teaches that existence at an instant implies no motion at that instant."

"The nature of space is to be infinitely subdivisible; this is the foundation of the paradoxes."

"The moving arrow at each instant is stationary; a sum of stationary states cannot produce motion."

"The stadium paradox shows that what moves must move in a place, and a moving place is itself a contradiction."

"The nature of magnitude is such that any magnitude can be divided infinitely without loss of magnitude."

"The dichotomy of motion applies to all movement; therefore, all apparent motion is impossible."

"To traverse any distance is to accomplish an infinite task; infinite tasks cannot be accomplished."

"If being is many, each part is being; each being is many; infinite regress is inevitable."

"To move, you must be and not be at the same place—a manifest contradiction."

"Science seeks to understand the mechanisms of creation itself."

"Scientific understanding does not diminish wonder; it deepens it."