Human thought Quote by Gerald Edelman Download Open image “Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,” — Gerald Edelman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human thought Humans Inspirational Metaphor
The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought ,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to penetrate the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom. — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Human thinking depends on metaphor. We understand new and complex things in relation to the things we already know... once you pick a metaphor… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves… — James Geary Copy Share Image
Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe. — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.” — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra -… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour, where from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone?… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created. — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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