Quotes About Understanding

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

If the answer is simple, God is speaking.