How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing… — L. E. J. Brouwer Copy Share Image
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The research reported on in our book "A=B", has moved a whole active field of mathematics from the province of human thought… — Herbert Wilf Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“Had Beta been French, perhaps he would've been an existentialist, probably though that would not have satisfied him. He smiled contemptuously at… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“If non-linear leaps in intelligence and ability are possible, why haven't these effects been observed in our schools? I believe the answer… — John Mighton Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“Scholars whose conclusions are based on their reasoning, without recourse to experience, are unable to make definite statements about the makeup of… — Otto Von Guericke Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Sartre is one example of someone who does just this. Every text is, after all, a human document and whatever Kierkegaard thought… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“We must not listen to those who advise us "being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts,"… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
