Action Quote by Blaise Pascal

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

— Vannevar Bush

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or…

— Plato

Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access…

— Regis Debray

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

— Norbert Wiener

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is…

— Bertrand Russell

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out…

— Gretchen Rubin

“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.”

— David Christian

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are…

— Edward Thorndike

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of…

— C. S. Lewis

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at…

— John Zachary Young

One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals…

— Kingsley Martin