Quotes About Clarity

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Hindsight is an exact science.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Words divide, pictures unite.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

Madness, and then illumination.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Science is a way to not fool ourselves.