As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
A first fact should surprise us, or rather would surprise us if we were not used to it. How does it happen… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding.… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In any kind of comic scene you're going to perhaps push the boundaries of plausibility but as long as there is some… — Rafe Spall Copy Share Image
“My feeling is that the concept of superrationality is one whose truth will come to dominate among intelligent beings in the universe… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air,… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
“If I were to believe in God enough to call him a murderer, then I might also believe enough that he, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Recently I am so much in to numbers, equations & scientific facts! I learned how to link logic to reason, and to… — Raouf Ayoub Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene… — Bill Milkowski Copy Share Image
“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A testimony is a most precious possession because it is not acquired by logic or reason alone, it cannot be purchased with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent- they believe… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“At the sound of my name, those two worlds on either side of me collide, and my lips meet his. Time ceases… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
“In short, this or that behavior wasn't good because scripture said so. Scripture mandated this or that behavior because it was good,… — Tamim Ansary Copy Share Image
“The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence. We saw in the case of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Baby rats need rat milk, baby cats need cat milk, baby dogs need dog milk, baby humans need human milk, baby cows… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
