Quotes About Understanding

Eyesight should learn from reason.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.

Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

Science is the search for truth.