Quotes About Understanding

La precariedad de la verdad no implica que no podamos ponernos de acuerdo.

Richard Feynman, who more than anyone has known how to juggle with the theory, has written: "I think I can state that nobody really understands quantum mechanics.

Fearing the transition, being afraid of death, is like being afraid of reality itself; like being afraid of the sun. Whatever for?

Hold on tight, because we are about to take off. "NOW" MEANS NOTHING What is happening "now" in a distant place? Imagine, for example, that your sister has gone to Proxima b, the recently discovered planet that orbits a star at approximately four light-years' distance from us. What is your sister doing now on Proxima b? The only correct answer is that the question makes no sense. It is like asking "What is here, in Beijing?" when we are in Venice.

Scientists are not immune from talking nonsense.

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?

Quando Einstein muore, Bohr, il suo grandissimo rivale, ha parole di commovente ammirazione. Quando pochi anni dopo muore Bohr, qualcuno prende una fotografia della lavagna nel suo studio: c'è un disegno. Rappresenta la «scatola piena di luce» dell'esperimento mentale di Einstein. Fino all'ultimo, la voglia di confrontarsi e capire di più. Fino all'ultimo, il dubbio.

Everything is still confused, and there is a very great deal that remains to be understood.

La Natura si sta comportando con noi come quell'anziano rabbino da cui erano andati due uomini per dirimere una contesa. Ascoltato il primo, il rabbino dice: "Hai ragione". Il secondo insiste per essere ascoltato, il rabbino lo ascolta e gli dice: "Hai ragione anche tu". Allora la moglie del rabbino, che orecchiava da un'altra stanza, urla: "Ma non possono avere ragione entrambi!". Il rabbino ci pensa, annuisce, e conclude: "Anche tu hai ragione".

But what we see and understand of the universe is not an infinity to drown in. It is a wide sea, but a finite one.

La capacidad de comprender antes de ver constituye el corazón del pensamiento científico.

Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the [Standard Model] that lacks elegance. Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

It was not the applications that motivated them but the natural desire to know.

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

Looking at the sun going down, the eyes of Copernicus had seen the world turning. Looking at a glass of still water, the eyes of Boltzmann saw atoms and molecules frenziedly moving.

There is no ultimate or mysterious essence to understand that is the true essence of our being.

I am this long ongoing novel. My life consists of it. It is memory that solders together the processes scattered across time of which we are made. In this sense, we exist in time. It is for this reason that I am the same person today as I was yesterday. To understand ourselves means to reflect on time. But to understand time, we need to reflect on ourselves.

I think that the obscurity of the theory is not the fault of quantum mechanics but is rather due to the limited capacity of our imagination. When we try to "see" the quantum world, we are rather like moles used to living underground, to whom someone is trying to describe the Himalayas. Or like the men imprisoned at the back of Plato's cave.

La confusione fra queste due diverse attività umane, inventare racconti e seguire tracce per trovare qualcosa, è l'origine dell'incomprensione e della diffidenza per la scienza di una parte della cultura contemporanea.

In the big picture of contemporary science, there are many things that we do not understand, and one of the things that we understand least about is ourselves.

It is characteristic of genius to be aware of the limitations of its own findings

The Einstein who makes more errors than anyone else is precisely the same Einstein who succeeds in understanding more about nature than anyone else.

A scientist is someone who lives immersed in the awareness of our deep ignorance, in direct contact with our own innumerable limits, with the limits of our understanding.

You ...see us ...and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.