If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“Thinking in art and morals and even mathematics is neither the reflection in consciousness of a mechanical order in the brain nor the tracing… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“...reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
I am a determinist...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose to do,… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
“I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating... The world… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
![“[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking…” quote by Brand Blanshard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4bf/brand-blanshard-35170_burden_how-to-think-about-a-problem-the-first-s_1268830.jpg)
