Quotes About Understanding

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.

I let myself flop - so gently, so slowly - into my one real chair and tried to make myself understand that I was on the doorstep of the universe.

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

. . . there was no possible way to deny that this girl probably felt emotions much deeper than most other people. If anyone was human, she was.

Don't stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

I'll show you my theory, if you show me yours.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.

If Scientists Like Einstein didn't exist, we wouldn't never know about the Universe

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

Part of me can't understand how Mom could do this. But there's that other part of me that can readily relate. Because I feel a pull in two different directions too.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.