Quotes About Understand

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Stephen Hawking said that his quest is simply "trying to understand the mind of God".

The Sufis, ' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

The sole instrument of life was heredity, which made the world; so that if one could only understand it, master it and make it do one's bidding, one could remake the world at will.

Don't you see, Lynn? We have to help . . . or else we won't have learned a thing.

I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.

To understand the problem we must explore the situation.

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

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Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.