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.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

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

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

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

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

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are not superhuman. They are ordinary people with ordinary frailties. But therein lies the power of their example.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

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.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

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.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

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.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

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

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.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

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

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

It’s the way I study – to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

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.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

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.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

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

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What you guys want, I’m for.

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

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

A person hears only what they understand.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

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.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.