Activity Quote by Alexander Hamilton

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases…

— John Herschel

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases…

— John Herschel

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

— Bertrand Russell

“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of…

— George Eliot

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot…

— Michel Foucault

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world…

— George Boole

When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact…

— Samuel Alexander

The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an…

— Daniel Dennett

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first…

— William Hazlitt

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief,…

— Ann Radcliffe

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

— George Berkeley