understanding Quotes

Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.