Jacques Dubochet Quotes

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

One eye sees, the other feels.

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

Comprehension follows perception.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

To understand is to invent.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing