The enlargement consists, not merely in the passive reception into the mind of a number of ideas hitherto unknown to it, but in the mind's  energetic and simultaneous action upon and towards and among those new ideas.  
——Jonh Henry.  British Newman Priest 　

扩增知识不仅是被动的将一堆原来不知道的观念接纳到脑子里来，而是把涌来的新观念作用于积极、活跃的脑部活动。这是一种极具创造力的行动。
——英国纽曼  红衣主教  亨利.J