The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

SETl, I think, is important, because it's exploration, and it's not only exploration, it's comprehensible exploration.

His irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain worker, was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers.

But the thing is, in a comprehensible universe, if something isn't forbidden by the laws of physics, then what could possibly prevent us from doing it, other than knowing how?

And I'm assuming what he is talking about as the incomprehensible, he is referring to some of the 'mathy' stuff that you see in economics, and hopefully we're going to make this as comprehensible as possible.

The people who actually have no money, who have no extravagant budget, but who realize that actually you might achieve greater success in uptake of a government program by actually doubling the level of benefits you pay, but you'll probably achieve exactly that same effect simply by redesigning the form and writing it in comprehensible English.