Quotes About Understanding

No, it's not Pluto. Get over it.

people taking the time and energy to ask about what they do not understand - I have renewed hope that society can shed its superstitions and embrace the enlightenment that comes from just a basic understanding of how the universe works.

The universe is knowable...

The universe is knowable and what one need not apeal to mystical, magical forces to account for things

And without violating momentum laws, you cannot spontaneously levitate and hover above the ground, whether or not you are seated in the lotus position.† Knowledge

What our phrenological exam says is that we understand how the universe behaved, but that most of the universe is made of stuff about which we are clueless. Our profound areas of ignorance notwithstanding, today, as never before, cosmology has an anchor, because the CMB reveals the portal through which we all walked. It's a point where interesting physics happened, and where we learned about the universe before and after its light was set free.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Don't start an argument with someone thinking they have the same level of knowledge as you on a particular topic.

Leonardo da Vinci would be in full agreement: "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion.

Children do not yet know that the world doesn't revolve around them.

If we instead back away from all that divides us, you might find common, unifying perspectives on the world. If so, watch where you step.

While there, 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?

Arguing more loudly or strenuously or more articulately than your opponent simply reveals how annoying and obstinate you are.

for Momo, Accardo

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them. Blanche Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive. Kate

Ma knew what was goin' on. She could tell if there was salt missin' from a pretzel.

In this life, we don't meet many people who truly love us, who accept us for who we are, who put us before themselves.

I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed.

The person who is too smart to love is truly an idiot.

My ex-girlfriend Lisa once said that every woman wants the same thing in a relationship: to be adored.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom. So every time you load all that unfinished business onto your partner, you're setting yourself up for another disappointment. Because as an adult, the only person who can give you those things is you.

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

Never underestimate your own capacity to care. "I