Quotes About Thinking

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

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

Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

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

Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".

It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

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