Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

I'm here 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.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I can explain this to you, but I cannot comprehend it for you.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

I like to open people's eyes.