Quotes About Comprehension

My perfect partner has to understand my silence as well as my needs, this is a very important factor for me.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

The simplest science book is over my head.

What I like about Bre.ad is the simplicity of it. When you can explain it to people, like 'five-second billboards in front of a link shortener,' it makes a lot of sense.

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Put yourself in the booties of a child who is in the midst of figuring out how to speak the language as it is spoken by parents, friends, and siblings.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

We understand what we want to understand.

La percepción del mundo comienza como una sinécdoque — ver la parte por el todo. La estructura del verdadero aprendizaje consiste en hallar totalidades cada vez más verdaderas, s[in] perder la percepción concreta de las partes.)

He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had never actually been introduced to one or shaken its hand.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy's song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

The more windows on the world a policeman has the better he is likely to be at his job

Do you really know what catalexis is?" "Not a clue. I heard you mention it once. It stuck in my memory because it sounds like a cross between a Cadillac and a Lexus.

Whenever there was a concept or learning technique that I related to in a manner too abstract to convey, I forced myself to break it down into the incremental steps with which I got there.

She had questions, of course, so I gave her my hands and answered them, interpreting what both of us were saying for Henry as I signed, so that instead of thinking in English or ASL, I thought between them.

that the bulk of his scholarship was out of my grasp); as

now. We should know something