Action Quote by Allen Newell

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive…

— Anonymous

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of…

— Ada Lovelace

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds…

— Scott Reed

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

— Gene Wolfe

“Symbols are more real than the things and ideas they represent”

— Anil Jain

The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many symbolic, algebraic…

— George Santayana

Things are symbols of themselves.

— Allen Ginsberg

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into…

— Gene Wolfe

“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper representations.”

— Mary Catherine Bateson

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of…

— William A. Dembski

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

— William Blake