Quotes about Understanding

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love.

A time is coming when the whole round world will know that God reigns and that God is Love, when hell and heaven, life and death, sin and salvation, will be read and understood aright at last.

Love is the weapon of the wise.

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.

If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that; it becomes stale, soon learned only by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.

But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.