Quotes About Insight

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

If the theory is confirmed by observation, it will be the successful conclusion of a search going back more than 3,000 years. We will have found the grand design.

I'm happy if I have added something to our understanding of the universe.

Quiet people has the loudest minds.

Noi cre?m istoria prin observa?iile noastre, iar nu istoria ne creeaz? pe noi.

Quiet people have the loudest minds

No, pero me gustaría verlas.

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us -- the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus.

Common sense is a very poor guide to scientific insight for it represents cultural prejudice more often than it reflects the native honesty of a small boy before the naked emperor.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

I write to find out what I think.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Words have weight.

There's always someone who knows something.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see .

One does not always need to hear a slam to know that the door has been closed.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

I believe there's another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I'm aware of.

People can be stunningly unobservant.