Failure Quote by William Styron

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across…

— Tom Stoppard

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics…

— Carl Jung

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between…

— C.P. Snow

The progressive agenda is actually legitimated by the incomprehension and anger it elicits: If the people do not resent and resist what is being…

— George Will

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

— W. G. Sebald

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the…

— Kingsley Amis

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we…

— Aldous Huxley

Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was…

— Louise Brealey

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension…

— Anonymous

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar