The dream of understanding intelligence is an old one.
Educated in England and France, Mr. Peissel (pronounced payss-EL) dropped out of Harvard Business School to become an explorer and follow his dream of understanding the peoples of Tibet, many of whom lived in regions closed to foreigners.
For example: "The only way to discover whether HGT could destroy Darwin's dream of understanding the great kingdoms of nature is to assume that it cannot, and then make every effort to try to determine the tree of life" [ 102].
I've dreamt of understanding life ever since hearing of Szent-Gyorgyi's remark that "life is interposed between two energy levels of an electron" as a biology undergraduate in Hong Kong University.
People who watch a lot of Channel 5 dream one day of understanding those lofty ITV1 Dramas like Wild at Heart where Stephen Tompkinson "catch um lion gud".
There is, for example, Einstein's E=mc2, which Dr. Peter Galison, a Harvard historian and physicist, describes in the book as "a metonymic of technical knowledge writ large," adding, "Our ambitions for science, our dreams of understanding and our nightmares of destruction find themselves packed into a few scribbles of the pen".
Among Freud's earliest writings was The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), in which he insisted that dreams are "the royal road to knowledge of activities of the unconscious mind"—in other words, that dreams offer a means of understanding waking experience.
While dream dictionaries and dream interpretation aids can be of some assistance in a very general way, the real nitty gritty of understanding what your dream means will always come down to you, your personal circumstances and the context of the dream and your waking life.
Sergiu Pasca, a neuroscientist at Stanford University, dreamed as a medical student of understanding the biological basis of autism and schizophrenia.
But I'll probably just do yard work". My heart broke a little bit at his pragmatism, of understanding his dreams weren't within reach but still worth holding on to.
Print alone gave the necessary depth of understanding.His Walter Mitty dream, as he said once, was to take his boat and leave "the daily flow of this miserable world".
