Cognitive Quote by Edward Tufte

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to…

— Edward Tufte

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

— Euclid

“These three laws, by which our thinking is naturally impelled from one idea to another which resembles it, or which is next to it,…

— T.Z. Lavine

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

— Genevieve Behrend

I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to…

— Francois Magendie

The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in…

— William Stanley Jevons

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

“One of the most profitable consequences of science as an “open system” of knowledge, as opposed to rigid dogma, is that the future Laws…

— Dean Radin

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them;…

— Arthur Eddington

I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.

— Francisco Varela