84 Quotes About Comprehension

Observing and understanding are two different things.

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension.

Communism looked good on paper, you know' — but how many people who say that even know what communism looks like on paper?

The world is so big and brains are so small.

you could not defend what you didn’t understand.

If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't.

Question their intentions if you must,comprehension is a far rational choice, than assumption.

I think that things happen in nature that we don't altogether understand, and to call them ghosts is to make sure we will not understand. The best we can do is not to put a name to them, but to listen.

You need to understand, comprehend and believe, “There is a goal in my birth. I have a mission, and there is something that no one but I can do.