Accepting Quote by E. O. Wilson

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by…

— Lewis Thomas

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical…

— Deepak Chopra

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and…

— Edward Boyden

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to…

— Anonymous

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

— Donna Jo Napoli

Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the…

— Hilary Kornblith

We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to…

— Maureen Duffy

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

— James Gleick

We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

— David Hawkins

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

— Euripides

In the end we can never be given knowledge by others; we can only be stimulated. We must develop our own knowledge.

— Charles Tart