Critical thinking Quote by Daniel Levitin

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence…

— Margaret Wertheim

“If you were given to thinking of numbers as having human-like qualities, you might picture e^i*pi as a guru into transcendental meditation who'd achieved…

— David Stipp

I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.

— Aimee Bender

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to…

— Daniel Tammet

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have.…

— Daniel Levitin

Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new…

— Daniel Levitin

I certainly was a geeky kid myself, but to me, math and science were always these magical things- powerful tools you could use in…

— Ben Mezrich

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler…

— David Hilbert

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

“You know, I don't believe that religions are religions. No, I believe they are philosophies with some good ideas and some fuckin' weird ones.”

— Eddie Izzard

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

— Darrel Ray