Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and…

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

— Harry S Truman

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

— Jack London

But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly…

— Yaron Brook

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be…

— Michael Parenti

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

— Paul Nurse

“I hurled myself into the study of my subject with renewed fervor, able to see the dry facts and arid descriptions in the same…

— Alan Moore

“People often assume that science is only about empirical research - that it's merely about facts and figures, which happens to be nowhere near…

— Abhijit Naskar

One contribution scientists can and should make is to be clear and explicit about the limits of scientific understanding, a matter that is particularly…

— Noam Chomsky

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of scientific…

— Peter Agre

There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in…

— Richard Davidson

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

— Vera Kistiakowsky

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is…

— E. O. Wilson

Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there…

— Noam Chomsky

Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous…

— Michael E. Mann