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  • Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. -- Marilyn Ferguson
  • To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. -- Marc Chagall
  • Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
  • We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. -- William Hazlitt
  • Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. -- David Gerrold
  • The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. -- Francis Bacon
  • The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
  • I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature. -- Al Gore
  • We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. -- Jacob Bronowski
  • Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings. -- Brian Weiss
  • Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing. -- Paul Davies
  • A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature. -- Ai Weiwei
  • Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. -- Jacob Bronowski
  • Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. -- Juan Cole
  • The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified. -- Nikola Tesla
  • I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. -- Robert Crumb
  • The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul. -- Alfred Adler
  • One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way. -- Alison Gopnik
  • Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
  • It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace. -- Lester B. Pearson
  • Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding -- Jacob Bronowski
  • Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. -- Juliette Lewis
  • The starting point for the understanding of war is the understanding of human nature. -- Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
  • Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. -- Jean Renoir
  • People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature. -- Fran Lebowitz
  • Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab... -- Wendy Mogel
  • I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy. I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature. -- Werner Herzog
  • The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become. -- Rajneesh
  • I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience. -- Terence McKenna
  • We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. -- Carl Jung
  • Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom. -- Allan Lokos
  • True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself. -- Kristine Carlson
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  • Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. -- William Shenstone
  • A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being. -- Albert Einstein
  • The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature. -- Frank Luntz
  • It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
  • My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world. -- Tara Brach
  • Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language -- Jean Rostand
  • Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. -- Francis Bacon
  • The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility. -- Ian Barbour
  • Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives. -- Brenda Shoshanna
  • Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. -- Brian Weiss
  • Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship. -- Brian Weiss
  • The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. -- Francis Bacon
  • One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people. -- Adolf Hitler
  • What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form? -- Jeremy Narby
  • The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo; changes according to advances in the sciences. -- John Cage
  • Although natural farming - since it can teach people to cultivate a deep understanding of nature - may lead to spiritual insight, it's not strictly a spiritual practice. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
  • The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. -- James Alison
  • One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians. -- Richard P. Feynman
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