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Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.

I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.