Quotes About Understanding

The electron must have infinite mass. Of course, no one believes this is literally true. But it happens to be true in the best theory that we have at the moment. And, until a better theory comes along, viewing the electron in this manner will continue to be unavoidable

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds.

What little we knew about grownups didn't seem to cover Grandma.

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don't even know what the experiment is testing.

You miss the half of it, and more. There's always as much belowground as above. That's the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen.

For a moment, looking felt like something that happened to you rather than something you did. Not 'Are you who I think you are?' Am I who you think I am?

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.

I remain one of those unreformable suckers who want to hear, just hear from time to time, even if the point of hearing has long since disappeared.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.

How would we ever know aliens? We can't even know birds.

His hand goes out, gesturing toward the conifers. It amazes me how much they say, when you let them. They're not that hard to hear. The (other) man chuckles. We've been trying to tell you that since 1492.

She becomes her father's star and only pupil for the simple reason that she alone, of all the family, sees what he knows: plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.

If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we'd drown you in meaning.

They wouldn't know how to see what he put in front of their eyes.

Now they need only learn what life wants from humans.

Thank you, she says, following the ancient formula. For all these gifts that you have given. And still not knowing how to stop, she adds, We're sorry. We didn't know how hard it is for you to grow back.

If you would learn the secrets of Nature, you must practice more humanity ...

How much they knew, these new children. How concentrated their knowledge of every mechanism, except for life.

How long does it take to know anyone? Five minutes, and done. Nothing can move you off a first impression. That person in your life's passenger seat? Always a hitchhiker, to be dropped off just down the road.

What?" he asks the tree. "What? " The tree feels no need to reply.

Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.