Mark Helprin

In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.

American Novelist

Chris Carter

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

American Producer

Alycia Debnam-Carey

It's funny because TV wasn't something that I wanted to do. I wanted to do movies. I'd said a lot of no's to a lot of shows previously because I couldn't fathom being on a show for such a long time and only doing one thing.

Australian Actress

Akira Toriyama

I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me 'famous' and such, I can't really fathom it, even now.

Japanese Artist

John Locke

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

English Philosopher

Nadya Suleman

I couldn't even fathom the idea of having my own children out in the world and not know them.

American Celebrity

Michael Caine

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

English Actor

Declan Donnelly

I think there is more to this world than we can possibly fathom. There's got to be.

English Producer

Jason McCourty

Before you have kids you can't even fathom what it really is.

American Football Player

Charles Baudelaire

French Poet

When you can't fathom something, it often involves shock or surprise.

Emotional Weight

Used when trying to understand something complex or not immediately obvious.

Figuring It Out

Often used to describe concepts that are hard to put into words.

Difficulty Expressing

Remember, a fathom is specifically six feet, so it's not used for any other measurements.

Measurement Specific

The term is traditional in nautical contexts, so it's less common outside of them.

Nautical Tradition

Fathom as a noun is almost always used to discuss the depth of water.

Water Depth

To fathom something in this sense means actively investigating or exploring.

Active Exploration

Fathom here implies a search for clarity and understanding to uncover deeper meaning.

Seeking Clarity

Often relates to profound or complex subjects that have layers of meaning.

Mystery and Depth

 And to be at the point where we can start to experience those things that we can't yet fathom. Let's just take a moment to visualize that. I'm talking about not individual little simulations but a massive possibility of huge networks of interaction. Massive global events that can happen inside that. Things that even in the real world become challenging to produce at that kind of scale.

The transformative power...

 lot of the qualities that make women women can be extended and amplified by technologies and a lot of quality that make man men can also be extended and amplified by technologies but these technologies might also serve as mediators that help men and women come together in new rich and amazing ways that we can't even fathom because

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 Feels like it would be very easy to die here. That thing is incredible there. And that's the that's the main headgear that brought up all that coal and over its lifetime, it brought up twenty four million tons of coal. I can't even like fathom that working and this place being like full of people.

Finding Little Owls in...

 and then here we are in the deep ocean, and we're finding marine creatures and cells that can illuminate the human mind. And it's my hope that with illuminated minds, we could ponder the overarching interconnectedness of all life, and fathom how much more lies in store

Glow-in-the-dark sharks...

 So obviously we didn't have any money. I was living at my mom's place. And we started writing letters to everybody. You very quickly work out what is it that you've got to do to fathom that out. How do you create a day voted by every single head of state in the world

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 It's hard because we often can't fathom how the other side came to their positions. It's hard because righteous indignation, that sense of certainty that ours is the right side, is so seductive. It's hard because it means extending empathy and compassion

I grew up in the...

 even more depressing is that 41% of the ocean has been heavily impacted those are the yellow orange and red places on the planet this is remarkable the ocean is truly vast their place is so remote it's hard to fathom their isolation and

Measuring the ocean’s...

 public health officials around the world had early warning signs and predictive tools that showed how that outbreak might spread, but they failed to fathom that it would, and they failed to act in time to intervene,

The power to think ahead...

 We need to change society, policy, economy and culture. This is about transformation, and the stakes for humanity are greater than my heart and mind can fully fathom. So I find the best way to cope with this

How to Find Joy in...

 He couldn’t fathom any meaning behind all this endless bloodshed and suffering. He if the world was meaningless, could our individual lives still hold value?

Fathom

To understand something difficult after thinking about it.

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A unit of length equal to six feet, used to measure the depth of water.

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To investigate to discover depth, meaning, etc.

Often appears as...

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