His daughter Jessamyn West said he was driven "to understand everything".
"Some of the hymns were so powerful that I was driven to understand them".
Researchers have even begun to think this longing works at DNA level: that we are driven to understand the history our very cells remember.
Academics are driven to understand the basic science of these events first, as a basis for proposed actions.
While many of the stunning entries depicted ecological processes in action, few gave a sense of what it's like to be an ecologist, to conduct research, to be driven to understand the natural world.
We are all redditors, and we are all driven to understand why Reddit works for some people, but not for others; which changes are working, and what effect they have; and to get into a rhythm of constant improvement.
This study is driven by the need to understand requirements to safe blow-down of hydrogen onboard storage tanks through a pressure relief device (PRD) inside a garage-like enclosure with low natural ventilation.
Much of "Can't Find My Way Home" is driven by a desire to understand how substances like marijuana, heroin, peyote, cocaine, LSD and amphetamines escaped their original milieu -- whether pharmaceutical or ethnographic -- and infiltrated American life, first the fringes and then the mainstream.
The management of rangeland systems for ecological and commercial outcomes is driven by a need to understand how grazing animals achieve most efficient and sustainable use of resources within the landscape.
Much of the intrigue underlying research of animal genitalia is driven by a desire to understand the evolutionary forces responsible for these diverse, complex, and remarkably intricate structures.
