Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
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 parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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