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Understand Quotes by Carl Sagan
- It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.
- Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have…
- A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and…
- I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning…
- The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability,…
- The universe forces those who live in it to understand it.
- You have to know the past to understand the present.
- I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have…
- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
- There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten…
- But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and…
- It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not…
- There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is…
- For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
- For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an…
- Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an…
More Understand Quotes
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila