Comprehensible Quotes

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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. — Martin Buber
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless… — Steven Weinberg
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in formulating the subject.… — Marjory Stephenson
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it… — Anton Chekhov
The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible... — Avinash Dixit
The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's… — Terry Teachout
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
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy
The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being done… — George Will
My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If… — Mortimer Adler
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to… — Queen Victoria
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable. — James Gosling
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day… — W G Sebald
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will… — Primo Levi
Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence… — Paul Davies
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -… — Paul Davies
Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible… — Barbara Ehrenreich

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