We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

A person hears only what they understand.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

So there’s no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn’t necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn’t necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The less you know, the more you believe.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Study men, not historians.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.