Quotes About Insight

All true knowledge contradicts common sense.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

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

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

[Science is] piecemeal revelation.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.