An important gap in current knowledge is an understanding of how host resistance to TB disease is mediated.
For me, jazz is an understanding of music, rather than an end in itself.
What's missing is an understanding of the real structural changes taking place in the global economy.
What's declined is an understanding of Christmas derived from the Reformation of the 16th century.
What might reduce our alarm, however, is an understanding of what genetic studies really show.
Ultimately, knowledge is an understanding of how different bits of information fit together.
What philosophy brings to science is an understanding of what it means, intellectually, practically, politically and ethically.
His "necessary ingredient," he says, is "an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live".
But what we do want is an understanding of the events leading up to our loved ones' murder.
Part of that is an understanding of where they are going to get the best healthcare in the NHS.
"One of the things I'd have liked to have seen is an understanding of how ordinary people live.
