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
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative… — Vladimir Lenin 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
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
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science - that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
The programmer, who needs clarity, who must talk all day to a machine that demands declarations, hunkers down into a low-grade annoyance.… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see… — James Jeans 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
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea… — Richard Powers 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
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image