Quotes About Understanding

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

If people don't have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.