I was driven completely by a desire to understand how…

“In a reductionist view, understanding something complex requires breaking it down into its components; understand those parts, add them together, and you’ll understand the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“No hells or heavens has Mirdad to offer you, but Holy Understanding which lifts you far beyond the fire of any hell and the…

— Mikhail Naimy

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some…

— Charles Darwin

Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was…

— Viktor Schauberger

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

— Alice Sebold

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

— Veronica Roth

“Sometimes we feel empty; we feel a vacuum, a great lack of something. We don’t know the cause; it’s very vague, but that feeling…

— Anonymous

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us…

— Frans de Waal

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative,…

— Anton Chekhov

“ll you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why, it will come.”

— Alice Sebold

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would…

— Bertrand Russell

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

— Randy Schekman

With a new national commitment, our scientists and engineers will overcome obstacles to taking these [hydrogen fuel cell] cars from laboratory to showroom, so…

— George W. Bush

Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game…

— Kenneth Fisher

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends…

— Jay Leno