Quotes About Understanding

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.