Advantage Quote by Gottfried Leibniz

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say…

— Albert Camus

The habit of mind which leads to a search for relationships between facts becomes of the highest importance in the production of ideas.

— James Webb Young

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of…

— Karen Armstrong

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented."…

— Marvin Minsky

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the…

— Alfred Noyes

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

— Bertrand Piccard

“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which…

— Kirk Varnedoe

“The stubborn critic would say: 'What is the benefit of these sciences?' He does not know the virtue that distinguishes mankind from all the…

— Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a…

— Wolfgang Pauli

A symbol may serve to transfer our intuitions and to suggest new ones only so long as its meaning is not defined.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi