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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,… — James Clerk Maxwell
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment. — Leonardo da Vinci
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet… — Michio Kaku
Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and… — Werner Heisenberg
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.… — Sydney Brenner
We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. — Richard Dawkins
We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in… — Pope John Paul II
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,… — Laurence Sterne
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? — Pablo Picasso
The rediscovery of the value of one's baptism is the basis of the missionary commitment of every Christian, because we see in the Gospel that… — Pope Benedict XVI
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a… — Henri Matisse
It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud.… — Dan Barker
On the other hand, famous evolutionists such as Dobzhansky were firm believers in a personal God. He would work as a scientist all week and… — Ernst Mayr
The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand. — James D. Watson

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