Understanding The World Quotes

“In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.”
― John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality

“(N)ot everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.”
― Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great

“That quality, he told me, is the rarest of all – the quality of a person who thinks, without prejudice or motivation other than simply a desire to understand the world.”
― T.M Cicinski, A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow

“When it comes to politics, there are far fewer truly smart people than there are people who merely know how to play the game of seeming smart.”
― Criss Jami

“Para comprender el mundo que nos rodea es necesario sentirlo”
― Patrik Svensson, Un inmenso azul: El mar, el abismo y la curiosidad humana