His daughter, Virginia McKnight Binger, and The McKnight Foundation board established the McKnight neuroscience program in his honor in 1977.
“Waxaan halkan ka salaamayaa Mudaneyaal & Marwooyin & dhamaan Qurba-joogta, waxaan ahay Taliye Xuseen Faarax Aadan (Xuseen Dheere), waxaan filayaa in dadku baddi magacaa iska haystaan, intaan Somaliland ka soo wareegnay ayaa la wada bartay, markii hore in taqaanay way jirtaa, hadaanay aqoona, haddaan u sheegayaa bulshada reer Maakhir, intaa ka dib, waxaan doonayaa inaan in yar oo war ah idin siiyo.