Quotes About Understanding

Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

The most practical solution is a good theory.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.

Research is appreciation.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.