Quotes about Interpretation
I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she endeavoured to form, yet did not bring about, because of the conflict of her forms with one another
— Arthur Schopenhauer
reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Toni did not speak English and I didn't speak Russian, but I felt as if we were making love that last night through our interpreters. I still don't know if she knew what was going on or not, but I suspect that she did.
— Audre Lorde
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
— Ayn Rand
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome
— St. Jerome
That's what's great about America: that our freedom of religion allows me to interpret the Bible exactly how it fits my worldview already.
— Stephen Colbert
model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.
— Stephen Hawking
The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. To deal with such paradoxes we shall adopt an approach that we call model-dependent realism. It is based on the idea that our brains interpret the input from our sensory organs by making a model of the world. When such a model is successful at explaining events, we tend to attribute to it, and to the elements and concepts that constitute it, the quality of reality or absolute truth.
— Stephen Hawking
The originator of an idea cannot be held responsible for egregious misuse of his theory.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Do we mean love, when we say love?
— Samuel Beckett