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“The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.” quote by Martin Gardner — Download Open image

“The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.”

Martin Gardner

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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And matter is made of particles. It's made of electrons and neutrons and protons. So the entire universe is made out of particles. Now what are the particles made out of They're not made out of anything. The only…

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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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Let the Bible be the Bible. It's not about science. It's not accurate history. It is a grab bag of religious fantasies written by…

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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it…

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“Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as…

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As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

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The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

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What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

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