Interpret

Famous quotes containing the word interpret:

“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)

“The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)