Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his... →
Vannevar Bush
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context... →
Judith Butler
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are... →
I'm a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I'm able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not... →
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me... →
Octavia E. Butler
Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean... →
Win Butler
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the... →
Jenson Button
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A. S. Byatt
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.