Quotes About Understanding

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Words divide, pictures unite.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.