Quotes About Thought

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

The alternative to thinking in evolutionary terms is not to think at all.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Christian Science explains all cause and effect as mental, not physical.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.