#understanding

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life. ↗

— Allison Williams

#act #after #being #college #enough

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#enriches #genius #school #solitude #understanding

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#easier #fantasy #folklore #i #internal

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#compassion #discipline #example #father #honesty

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#base #biology #birth #found #had

Power is the by-product of understanding. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#power #understanding

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#book #civics #congress #find #how

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War. ↗

— Ken Burns

#am #america #called #civil #civil war

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had