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.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

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

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.

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

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

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.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

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

I have a collective sense of suffering.

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.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

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.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

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.

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

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.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

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

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

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

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

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

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Respect the burden.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.