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title: "10 Comprehensibility Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-eternal-mystery-of-the-world-is-its-comprehensibility/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-fowler/comprehensiveness-is-the-enemy-of-comprehensibility/)

[Martin Fowler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-fowler/)

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> [One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/one-may-say-the-eternal-mystery-of-the-world-is-its-comprehensibility/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-webern/comprehensibility-is-the-highest-law-of-all-unity-must-be-there-there/)

[Anton Webern](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-webern/)

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> [History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johan-huizinga/history-creates-comprehensibility-primarily-by-arranging-facts/)

[Johan Huizinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johan-huizinga/)

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> [Maturity is an ability to see the things with comprehensibility, clarity, entirity and sanity than anything to do with the age capacity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anuj-somany/maturity-is-an-ability-to-see-the-things-with-comprehensibility-2/)

[Anuj Somany](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anuj-somany/)

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> [Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jakob-bohme/time-past-present-and-to-come-as-also-depth-and-height-near-and-afar/)

[Jakob Bohme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jakob-bohme/)

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> [The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-comprehensibility-of-the-world-seems-to-me-a-wonder-or-eternal/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/will-highly-comprehensible-code-by-virtue-of-being-easy-to-modify/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johan-huizinga/every-work-of-history-constructs-contexts-and-designs-forms-in-which/)

[Johan Huizinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johan-huizinga/)

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