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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

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You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! ↗

— Lewis Tappan

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The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

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'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended. ↗

— Pam Grier

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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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