Quotes About Clarity

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

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

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

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.

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

Science rejects the indeterminate.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.

Perception defines everything.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.