Quotes About Thought

ninguna máquina ha superado el test de Turing, una prueba bastante sencilla y, posiblemente, no demasiado significativa. Y, desde luego, ninguna ha superado el listón de Ada —aún más alto— de ser capaz de «originar» cualquier pensamiento propio.

He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted were at times astonishing, mysterious, and counterintuitive, yet they contained notions that could capture the popular imagination: the relativity of space and time, E=mc2, the bending of light beams, and the warping of space. Adding

was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me," he recalled. "If a person falls freely, he will not feel his own weight." That realization, which "startled" him, launched him on an arduous eight-year effort to generalize his special theory of relativity and "impelled me toward a theory of gravitation."16 Later, he would grandly call it "the happiest* thought in my life.

On the other hand, he stressed in scores of letters and statements that Americans should not let the fear of communism cause them to surrender the civil liberties and freedom of thought that they cherished. There were a lot of domestic communists in England, but the people there did not get themselves whipped into a frenzy by internal security investigations, he pointed out. Americans need not either.

more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.

The clichés in political denunciations in many low-technology, developing cultures—enemy of the people, capitalist war-mongers —that strike high literates as mindless are residual formulary essentials of oral thought processes.

Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the unconscious rather than the conscious level.

Many of the features we have taken for granted in thought and expression in literature, philosophy and science, and even in oral discourse among literates, are not directly native to human existence as such but have come into being because of the resources which the technology of writing makes available to human consciousness.

We cannot begin to discover the mind as long as we ignore the irrational and subterranean springs of behaviour as well as thought.

Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

the blink is either something that helps an internal separation of thought to take place, or it is an involuntary reflex accompanying the mental separation that is taking place anyway.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Adam sat back and scoured his recent memory.

There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly.

Other people cherish another thought. They conclude that life is power. To have the Lord as our life means to be given power by Him to do good. Nevertheless, God shows us that our power is not a thing; it is simply Christ. Our power is not the strength to do things; rather, it is a Person. Life to us is not only power but also a Person. It is Christ who manifests himself in us, instead of our using Christ to display our good works.

I think and that is all that I am.

Your imagination is able to do all that you ask in proportion to the degree of your attention."29 — NEVILLE

When you see the world as full of opportunities to help, one thought and one action at a time, you'll be living by your inner light.

El antepasado de toda acción es el pensamiento».

Every passionate thought that you have regarding how you want to conduct your life is evidence that you're in harmony with your own unique nature—your fervent belief is all you need.

What you think about expands is the first rule. The second is, What you think about is already here. That's really important. In the world of thought, everything you think about is already here—it's not like it's someplace else. Whatever is conceivable in your mind, you can create in form.

see the part of you that's as constant as a spirit or a thought. This is your essence, and it's incapable of being harmed in any way.

When you see the world as full of opportunities to help, one thought and one action at a time, you'll be living by your inner light. The great