Quotes About Understanding

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.

The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Intelligence is not a science.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Madness, and then illumination.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Science brings men nearer to God.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

To understand is to invent.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.