Good understanding Quote by Robert Boyle

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion,…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second…

— Alexandre Dumas

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

— Iris Murdoch

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity,…

— Isaac Newton

The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.

— Bertrand Russell

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

— Aristotle

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn…

— Koichi Tohei

“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight…

— Rodney Brooks

“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.”

— Immanuel Kant

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

— Anonymous