Thought Quotes

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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before… — Ernst Mach
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What… — Alfred Binet
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its… — John Stott
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! — Niels Bohr
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed… — Edward Teller
No-one really thought of fission before its discovery. — Lise Meitner
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We got rid of colonialism, we got rid of slavery, and we got rid of apartheid everyone thought each one of them was impossible. Let's… — Muhammad Yunus
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical… — James Jeans
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but… — John Stuart Mill
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the… — Albert Einstein
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can… — Bertrand Russell
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… — Bertrand Russell
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. — Isidor Isaac Rabi
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on… — Victor Hugo

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