Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

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

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

A person hears only what they understand.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

My first popular book, ‚A Brief History of Time,‘ aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

And yet it moves.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.