Quotes About Comprehension

Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain the essence of an exciting lecture by admitting, with uncommon candor, that he could think of no explanation, not even an analogy, that wasn't unacceptably misleading.

It is very hard to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

El esfuerzo por comprender el universo es una de las pocas cosas que eleva la vida humana por sobre el nivel de la farsa y le imprime algo de la elevación de la tragedia.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.

My deductions have not impressed you at all, which leads me to think that you knew everything already.

I was sure he knew exactly what I had experienced in the night, as strongly as if he'd spoken to one aloud. In some way, he had experienced it too, and had been shocked out of his coma.

Let me explain what I think you are." "Please do. It would interest me greatly.

She thinks she has my measure, he thought, but she's not wholly clear about it.

It's stupid, really," I began again. "But it was this thing I read someplace, and it really got to me. It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it,

A dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book.

It said that a dictionary is every book ever written and every book that will be written, just in a different order. And it seemed magical. You could own every book just by owning one book. I loved that. And I just had to have it.

He had always had difficulty in recognising an emotion.

he recognized that particular look.

We almost never know what we know until after we know it.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.

Generally, you cannot solve a problem without defining the problem completely.