Quotes About Understanding

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.