more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio

1. A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].

Example Sentences

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Hamlet says to his friend in the Shakespeare tragedy.

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As Hamlet would have it, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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What Hamlet said to his school friend could be said to even the greatest minds of every age: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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It involves drawing a line under the discussion by smugly saying that, “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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