The Capacity for Understanding - Noam Chomsky

The capacity for understanding in the “profoundest sciences” and “high feeling” are a common human attribute, and those who lack the opportunity to exercise the capacity to inquire, create, and understand are missing out on some of life’s most wonderful experiences.

Noam Chomsky, Racionality/Science and Post-This-or That, 1992 Included in Chomsky on Democracy and Education, 2003, p.93