Psychology Quote by Nora Bateson

Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new…

— Gregory Bateson

“Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective…

— Carlo Rovelli

“Those insights in science that have led to a breakthrough were not logically derived from preexisting knowledge: The creative processes on which the progress…

— William Lanouette

“Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

— Arthur Eddington

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate…

— William Kingdon Clifford

Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are…

— Vivian Gornick

“The thinker seeks the laws of phenomena, and strives to penetrate by thinking what he experiences by observing. Only when we have made the…

— Rudolf Steiner

“Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the…

— Dean Radin

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

— Bertrand Russell

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph…

— Daniel Dennett