Quotes About Understanding

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.