Thinking Quotes

"Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure."

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

"I thought of that while riding my bicycle."

"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."

"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation."

"Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."

"New frameworks are like climbing a mountain – the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view."

"Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it."

"The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."

"Reason is intuition's servant."