Quotes About Comprehension

To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

If you aren't confused by quantum mechanics, you haven't really understood it.

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Research is appreciation.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

The logical and extralogical exercises you do in meditation are very similar to advanced systems analysis and programming.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.