Understand the world Quotes

“We often try to understand the world without understanding ourselves.”

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

“Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts -- genes, atoms, bytes -- before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum.”

“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations more than others.”

“How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?”

“If you do not understand yourself, you will never understand the world around. The biggest world is within, outside views are our perceptual creation.”

“The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”

“I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.”

“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place”