Quotes About Understanding

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Only those who have felt the knife can understand the wound, only the jeweller knows the nature of the jewel.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly.

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible.