No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

Understanding is, after all, what science is all about — and science is a great deal more than mindless computation.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!