Quotes About Understanding

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

I'll teach you differences.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

None but a woman can teach the science of herself.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

Combinatorialists and analysts always have different names for everything, in order to keep themselves from interacting.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...