Comprehending Quotes

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

  

  William Greenough Thayer Shedd
  • Criticism
  • Disappear
  • Comprehending

• When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Rich
  • Chaos
  • Applause

• 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

  

  John Wilkins
  • Science
  • Certain
  • Compass

• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Particular
  • Electricity
  • Branches

• Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Able
  • Limits
  • Capable