Quotes About Understanding

You like simple." "Doesn't everybody?" "Some people thrive on complexity, Craig.

Now Mom is crying, and I learn something I didn't know about the human body: if your mom cries, you cry.

O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão.

I was lying to this person; that meant we really knew each other.

he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don't come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He'll use his word, and if I understand it, I'll say, "Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee's. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

True science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.

As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.

Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.

You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who only know what to think.

Or maybe arguing with people you disagree with takes less effort than exploring why they think differently from you.

What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees

What are the chances that this first and only smart species in the history of life on Earth has enough smarts to completely figure out how the universe works? Chimpanzees are an evolutionary hair's-width from us yet we can agree that no amount of tutelage will ever leave a chimp fluent in trigonometry. Now imagine a species on Earth, or anywhere else, as smart compared with humans as humans are compared with chimpanzees. How much of the universe might they figure out?

Explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems.

How do you study something that cannot possibly get your clothes dirty? How do astrophysicists know anything about either the universe or its contents if all the objects to be studied are light-years away? Fortunately, the light emanating from a star reveals much more to us than its position in the sky or how bright it is.

I came to resent labels of all kinds. What are they, if not intellectually lazy ways of asserting you know everything about a person you've never met?