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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in… — Martin Rees
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
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it. — Poul Anderson
I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things, like the particles… — Lewis Thomas
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the… — Lewis Thomas
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both… — Arthur Keith
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand… — Blaise Pascal
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate… — Eugene Ionesco
What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the… — Albert Einstein
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of… — William J. Clinton
I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes. — Winston Churchill
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good… — Jennifer Lopez
By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it. — Confucius
When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong. — Monica Bellucci
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. — Irvin S. Cobb
The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself. — Thomas a Kempis

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