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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

~Abdus Salam

Topics: Complexity Comprehend Concepts Desired Elementary Few Man Nature Possible Terms Time

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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Almost Cannot Cause Common Comprehend Connect Deep Desire Empathize Experienced Fervent Find Generation Kind Level Love Mystical Next Next Generation Other Parents Poor Possibly Preserve Protect Some Souls Supposed Theory Those Who World

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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Topics: Brain Cannot Cave Clever Comprehend Consequences Disposal Enough Forces Here Life Middle New New World Our Primitive Release Simple Stand Terrific We Cannot Which Whose World

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'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.

~Algernon Sidney

Topics: Come Comprehend Consent Equal Force Hard Himself How Man Many Master Right Tis Unless

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For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

~Allison Pearson

Topics: According Arise Centuries Comprehend How Manly Measured Men Needing Question Simply Up Valued Virtues Were Women

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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

~Ansel Adams

Topics: Comprehend Creeds Heroic Myths Struggles Truth World

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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

~Anthony Hopkins

Topics: Comprehend Even Every Every Second Force Illusion Magical Second Strange Strange Thing Supernatural Thing Time Us

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Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

~Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Topics: Accept Comprehend Enough Her Just Men Men And Women Must Nature Suggestions Women

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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Appreciate Buildings Cannot Comprehend Medieval Really Single Town Understand We Cannot Whole

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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Comprehend Cultures Incapacity Insistence Measuring Other Our Own Stems Terms Things

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