Ability Quote by Martin Gardner

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated…

— Tom Chatfield

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

— Paul Allen

Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of self-conscious philosophy…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a…

— Steven Pinker

The brain was designed by evolution, so each part of it is optimized for what it does, and it's incredibly, incredibly complex.

— Paul Allen

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just…

— Tom Robbins

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with…

— Arthur Koestler

I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of…

— Daniel Levitin

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

— Albert Einstein

We cant solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

— Albert Einstein

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

— George Polya

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

— Arthur Koestler