Brain Quotes
It is not uncommon for engineers to accept the reality of phenomena that are not yet understood, as it is very common for physicists to disbelieve the reality of phenomena that seem to contradict contemporary beliefs of physics --- H. Bauer
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science
Science might be better served when some scientists generate novel ideas while others carp at everything new, than if all scientists could somehow become disinterestedly skeptical
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw
A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid
A paranoid is a man who knows a little of what's going on
A room without books is like a body without a soul
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it
Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. and you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad
All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with
All great truths begin as blasphemies
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between -- Oscar Wilde
If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy?
When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - A. Einstein
A danger sign of the lapse from true skepticism in to dogmatism is an inability to respect those who disagree
Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be reality at the end of it --and I see no difference between a scientist developing a marvellous discovery and an artist making a painting
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless
Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity
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