“The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.” WellsUnderstoodAccountsTransformationFleshPeculiarCoinsGraspingExtravaganceMisersSubstitutionSpendthrift Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.” ThinkingKnowsWayIdeasFactsFormUsedUnderstandingAcceptingKnowingUnderstoodAccountsAssumingFamiliarUsed To BeAnalysisThoughtfulDeceivingPros And Cons Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.” WisdomRealityScienceUnderstandingKnowledgeUnderstoodAccountsMethodInstrumentsObservationComprehendingAcquiring Knowledge Author:Alexis Carrel
“Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.” WorldYearsGodCareScienceReligionTurnsUniverseLanguageChanceThousandComfortableUnderstoodConcernEmptyAccountsMathematicsComplexesScaryEnormousMathematicalPeculiarThousand YearsChillVistasUncaringSmall World Author:Isaac Asimov
“If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.” IfsMenMindKindMayScienceTermKnowledgeTeachOffersPureUnderstoodAccountsIncreaseImprovementGreat ThingsDespiseAcquisitionExertionSmall Beginnings Author:Michael Faraday