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“In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government”

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“The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

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Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

“A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.”

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Author:Georg Cantor

“The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.”

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Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.”

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Book:Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon

“What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.”

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Author:Nathan Seiberg

“In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.”

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Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”

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Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”

“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.”

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Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 1 for tablets