Quotes About Comprehension

C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une science.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.

A man of true science... thinks, that by mouthing hard words, he proves that he understands hard things.

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The manipulation of statistical formulas is no substitute for knowing what one is doing.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

All science requires mathematics.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

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

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

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

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.