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Quotes About Comprehensibility

Of all heroes , Spinoza was Einstein 's greatest. No one expressed more strongly then he a belief in the harmony , the beauty , and most of all the ultimate comprehensibility of nature.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
The reason why higher-level subjects can be studied at all is that under special circumstances the stupendously complex behaviour of vast numbers of particles resolves itself into a measure of simplicity and comprehensibility. This is called emergence: high-level simplicity 'emerges' from low-level complexity.
~ David Deutsch
The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.
~ Albert Einstein
We want our code to be a quick skim, not an intense study.
~ Robert C. Martin
most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility… The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.
~ Anton Webern
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
For history itself is destroyed, and its comprehensibility—based upon the fact that it is enacted by men and therefore can be understood by men—is in danger, whenever facts are no longer held to be part and parcel of the past and present world, and are misused to prove this or that opinion.
~ Hannah Arendt
The central point is rebellion against the renunciation of the desire to know. A declaration of faith in the comprehensibility of the world, a proud retaliation to those who remain satisfied with their own ignorance, who call "infinite" that which we don't understand and delegate knowledge elsewhere.
~ Carlo Rovelli
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
~ Johan Huizinga
The less comprehensible he was, the more responsible he was held to be. Here was no lightweight.
~ Clive James
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
~ Albert Einstein
For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.
~ Martin Fowler
In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.
~ Novalis