Quotes About Comprehension

There's branches of science which I don't understand; for example, physics. It could be said, I suppose, that I have faith that physicists understand it better than I do.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.

If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can't talk about it, which means that you can't come together to address it, let alone change it.

Cómo podía ser que nadie comprendiera? se había preguntado Tardewski. ¿O sólo leemos lo que ya hemos leído, una y otra vez, para buscar en las palabras lo que sabemos que está en ellas, sin que sorpresa alguna pueda variar el sentido?

In prncipi erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in prncipi apud Deum: omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ips factum est nihil quod factum est. In ips vta erat et vta erat lx hominum, et lx in tenebrs lcet et tenebrae eam nn comprehendrunt.

Laudant illa, sed ista legunt.

Most of them had not understood Blackberry's discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.

Learning is finding out what you already know

Look with the help of understanding, explore that what you already know...

Bir insan? çabucak anlamak istediÄŸimde, kitapl???na bir göz atmak yeter.

You're dumb, Garraty. You and me and Pearson and Barkovitch and Stebbins, we're all dumb. Scramm's dumb because he thinks he understands and he doesn't. Olson's dumb because he understood too much too late.

Yo comprendo que es morir, me parece-dijo de pronto Pearson-. Ahora lo comprendo. No la muerte en si, a eso todavia no llego; pero entiendo que es morir. Si dejo de caminar, punto final. [...]-Observó a Scramm y, con aire sincero, añadió-: Quizá sea como dices. Quizá no baste, pero...No quiero morir. Scramm le devolvió la mirada con aire casi desdeñoso. -¿Y crees que comprender la muerte va a librarte de morir?

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

it was impossible to convey the complexities of an economic reform programme when voters only understood war-cries or catchphrases. He was more effective at talking sense into people, and in improving their comprehension

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!

If you need a geography lesson in order to know where Africa is – if, by age seventeen, you have somehow failed to imbibe such knowledge by osmosis or simple curiosity – you surely don't have the sort of mind that would benefit from a university education.

We needn't bother with exactly what 'electric charge' means here.

Physics appears to be a complicated subject, because the ideas of physics are difficult for us to understand. Our brains were designed to understand hunting and gathering, mating and child-rearing: a world of medium-sized objects moving in three dimensions at moderate speeds.

do not just declare things to be irreducibly complex; the chances are that you haven't looked carefully enough at the details, or thought carefully enough about them.

Explaining is where we all get into trouble.

A related but more complex aspect of working memory gives us the ability to draw on past learning or experience and apply it to the situation at hand or predict future outcomes.