Quotes About Understanding

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

One of the nice things about math and science is it's obvious, you get the answer or you don't get the answer.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Science is not perfect. It's often misused; it's only a tool, but it's the best tool we have. Self-correcting , ever changing, applicable to everything: with this tool, we vanquish the impossible.

I don't believe in mathematics.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Science probes; it does not prove.

I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

Metaphysics is a science.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.