Our Understanding Quotes

176 Our Understanding quotes by 156 unique authors

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light… — Haruki Murakami
Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things.… — Holly Black
We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical. — David Platt
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. — Lawrence M. Krauss
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the… — Peter Rollins
The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as… — Alain de Botton
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand… — Isaac Newton
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. — Corrie Ten Boom
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other… — Fernando Pessoa
Though we feel we can choose what we do, our understanding of the molecular basis of biology shows that biological processes are governed by the… — Stephen Hawking
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
The gifts of microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms is so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the… — Unknown Author
Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in… — Henry Taube
As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications… — Francis Collins
It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that… — Margaret D. Nadauld
I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe. — Stephen Hawking
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the… — Neil MacGregor
Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace. — Anne Wojcicki
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain.… — Thomas R. Insel
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand,… — Martin Rees
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century. — Stephen Kinzer
For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced… — Tom Chatfield
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. — Andrew Pyper
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe… — John Rhys-Davies

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