Richard Feynman Quotes on Understanding
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Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.
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I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.
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What I cannot create, I do not understand.
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I have to understand the world, you see.
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In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
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If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood it.
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What does it mean, to understand? ... I don't know.