Intelligible Quotes

103 Intelligible quotes by 92 unique authors

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications. — Donald A. Norman
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a… — A.J. Ayer
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. — Thomas Huxley
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in… — Edward Hallett Carr
The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself… — John Polkinghorne
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
A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. — Guy Davenport
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds… — Ronald Fisher
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is… — Ralph Cudworth
Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world. — Bertrand Russell
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… — George Saintsbury
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement… — Richard Cobden
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us. — Thomas Nagel
If I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might happen that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an… — Arthur Eddington
[I]t's up to Republicans to expose the bureaucracies and criticize the orthodoxies - to ask why visas for travel to the United States are still… — William Kristol
School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world… — E. M. Forster
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as… — Nicolas Malebranche
What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent — Friedrich Nietzsche
Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . .… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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