Quotes About Cognition

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Intelligence is not a science.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

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

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.

I am the thought you are now thinking.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

The mind is an evolved computer program.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

At extremely high processing speeds we are able to find patterns of order in what other people would perceive as chaos.