Scott Adams Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.

  Scott Adams

  Real, Mean, Acceptance

• Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

  Scott Adams

  Understanding, Shortcuts

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.74, Penguin

• Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.

  Scott Adams

  Dog, Knowledge, Science

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