"What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible." — Umberto Eco

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• The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. — Martin Buber
• But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This… — Albert Einstein
• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces… — Steven Weinberg
• In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries… — Marjory Stephenson
• My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat… — Anton Chekhov
• The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible... — Unknown Author
• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print… — Terry Teachout
• I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an… — Jurgen Habermas
• Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy
• The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and… — George Will

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