There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8×10 27 atoms.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

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.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

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

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

A person hears only what they understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They’re being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The good man is the friend of all living things.