Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
From a really young age, I was reading like a writer. I was reading for the deep understanding of the literature; not… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
It's not for the president to determine the arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians, and the Arab world, but to be the… — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought… — Gene Hill Copy Share Image
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people. — William Binney Copy Share Image
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The growth of our understanding of the world through science weakens some of the motivation which makes people believers. But that's not… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
Even for most of the GOP's old-school legislators, there is dawning understanding that opposition to freedom to marry is on the wrong… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond to irritation… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
This going on and on about how terrible a carbon-based economy is, these people are full of crap. They don't know what… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
If we could see others the way they see themselves it would change everything about how we relate to each other. — Mike Messerli Copy Share Image
Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we have to go through difficult, heartbreaking and emotional times to better understand who we are..from the inside… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands… — Truth Devour Copy Share Image
Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Although we human adults are really good at understanding other minds, we weren't always that way. It takes children a long time… — Rebecca Saxe Copy Share Image
It makes me very sad. Everyone's afraid of each other - Jews are afraid of Palestinians, Palestinians are afraid of Jews. Everywhere… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and… — Donald Griffin Copy Share Image
Understanding is far better than knowledge. There are many people in our lives that know us, but not a lot of people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
To me, the idea of heaven would give you certain pleasures, certain joys - but it's very important to have an intellectual… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
What inspires me today is a desire to get closer to an understanding of what my artistic capacities are with the hope… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I don't like doing things without understanding the meaning. Once I walked out of a film event as I could not stand… — K. J. Yesudas Copy Share Image
