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The impulse to understand, and not merely to know and to act, is an impulse characteristic of man and apparently not shared by other animals. I am not concerned here with the origin and nature of this impulse, but with its implications that there is something to be understood and that understanding is not reducible to knowledge and action.

— John G. Bennett J.G. Bennett (1963)

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Facts, that are no more than facts, are atomic and unrelated except by general laws. That is how the world was studied until the middle of the present century.

The Dramatic Universe: Man and his nature (1966)

We do not know structures, but we know because of structures.

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The systematic principle is based upon the hypothesis that there is a structure in the real world that transcends the distinctions of subjective and objective experience.

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Structure is a primary element of experience and not something that is added by the mind. In this respect, it can be said that the techniques of understanding call for a drastic revision of the usual modes of thought that treat being and understanding as independent or at least as separable from one another.

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