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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand…
— Norbert Elias
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The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot…
— Adyashanti
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One thought cannot awake without awakening others.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized,…
— Tess Gerritsen
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A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or…
— Carl Jung
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Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
— Eckhart Tolle
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One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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