Quotes About Understanding

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

How can I make your difficult life more tolerable?" "Just be nice to me, I guess? My brain doesn't work.

So much one man can do,That does both act and know.

When we think everything is going wrong, it usually isn't. We just can't see the whole picture.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood

Science isn't a book of explanations. It's a process. A process we're continuing to refine and make more precise. Despite setbacks and wrong turns, nobody has ever seriously said the problem with science was its demand for more precision and deeper understanding.

DNA wasn't a simple recipe book that could be readily understood.

When you're a kid, you just assume your parents were always grown-up.

Just keep in mind, it was aware of us long before we were aware of it.

I was loved, to be certain, but loved by people who didn't know how to love themselves.

It's a man's job to decide which of a woman's fictions to maintain..." Allan couldn't remember who said that, but it still rang true.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.

when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

And even though it kills me when you're not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you're still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I'd never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me.

We figure that's their

What are you going to use?" "Common sense?

asked us to imagine a toolbox and inside it pairs of glasses that affect what you see and what you think. With each one comes a certain knowledge set.

Theory of Mind to practical use—understanding how others see the world.

But to paraphrase the Supreme Court's statement about obscenity, when it comes to patterns, I know them when I see them.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos. Sometimes it simply can't be done, as science tells us via quantum mechanics and chaos theory. A thing can