A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be…

“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

— Marilyn Nelson

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

— Carl Jung

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

— Peter Coyote

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

— James Gosling

If you're going to believe in God, if you're going to take that leap of faith, as I do, then the God that seems…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

— Dieter Rams

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

— Julie Andrews

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

— Steven Weinberg

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

— August Macke

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

— Jurgen Habermas

“Beware of those bearing grief in comprehensible words.”

— John Mateer

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

— Umberto Eco

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt