Human Thought Quotes - Page 1

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Yevgeny Zamyatin / Author
Bitter
Bitterness
Entropy
Human Thought
Remedy
Against
Human
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The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Havelock Ellis / Physician
Science
Human Thought
Ladders
Math
Mathematician
Ladder
Reached
Rung
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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.
Jean De La Bruyere /
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Late
Seven
Thousand
Thousand Years
Too Late
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Religion
Atheism
Contribution
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Massive
Proof
Bore
Chief
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Daniel Webster / Former United States Senator
All Things
Ends
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Levers
Mind
Process
Answered
Lever
Ultimately
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
James Gleick / Author
Running
Human Thought
Long
Stories
Long Run
Medium
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The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.
Herbert A. Simon /
Contribution
Human Thought
Nobel
Welfare
Directed
Prizes
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Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
Eugene Field / Writer
Birth
Human Thought
Ideas
Immediacy
Instant
Monstrous
Pendulums
Extreme
Came
Explosive
Pendulum
Swinging
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells / Writer
Jesus
Teacher
Changed
Doctrine
Heaven
Human Thought
Retirement
Revolutionary
Teaching
Certainly
Main
Stirred
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Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
Ellen Ullman / Author
Design
Imagination
Computer
Concepts
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Multitasking
Nurture
Principles
Useful
Systems
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
Richard Powers / Novelist
Imagination
Desire
Driven
Human Thought
Ideas
Suspicion
Bodies
Cobbled
Sensibilities
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In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.
Sebastian Thrun / Educator
Computer Science
Feedback
Human Thought
Instant
Meaningful
Subtlety
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The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought.
Chen-Ning Yang / Physicist
Concepts
Daily Experience
Existence
Homogeneity
Human Thought
Simplest
Symmetry
Accordance
Date
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
Walter Mosley / Novelist
Civilization
Cradle
Eastern
Human Thought
Males
White
Africa
Male
Exceptions
Footing
Highest Form
Philosophers
Seemed
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I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity.
Tony Harrison / Poet
Absolutes
Danger
Diminish
Human Thought
Temptation
Time God Great
Absolute
Certainties
God Time Great
Monotheistic
Tendency
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As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
James Gleick / Author
Complaining
Flooding
Human Thought
Philosophy
Printing Press
Change Good People
Necessarily
Press
Soon
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Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.
Mary Lou Jepsen /
Capable
Communicate
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Directly
Truths
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Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.
Fei-Fei Li /
Computer
Computer Science
Experts
Fields
Human Thought
Programmers
Scope
Sensitive
Solutions
Ai
Derived
Domains
Insights
Likely
Require
Task
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The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.
Maryanne Wolf /
Connections
Developmental
Human Thought
Transformed
Added
Circuit
Entirely
Hominid
Repertoire
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If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.
Daniel Dennett / Philosopher
Human Mind
Human Thought
Long
Machines
Matched
Mere
Mind
Mysterious
Resistance
Thinking
Triumph
Future History Science
Comprehend
Darwinian
Future Science History
Insist
Measure
Thinkers
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