Affair Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too…

— Edward T. Hall

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible…

— C. Wright Mills

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe…

— Francis Crick

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

— Neil Armstrong

Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We cannot gain an essential knowledge of man through any method that is based on externalization of man's inner being and the placing of…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

— Jostein Gaarder

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

— Aristotle

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

— Kay Redfield Jamison