Cognitive Science
Quotes & Thinkers in Cognitive Science
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"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
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🇺🇸Daniel Dennett
Philosophy
analytic philosophy
1942–2024
"Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions."
63 quotes
🇦🇹Friedrich Hayek
Philosophy
1899–1992
"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
88 quotes
🇺🇸Marvin Minsky
Mathematics
1927–2016
"Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things."
60 quotes
🇺🇸Seymour Papert
Mathematics
1928–2016
"Should the computer program the kid or should the kid program the computer?"
13 quotes
🇩🇪Joscha Bach
Philosophy
b. 1973
"Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational."
89 quotes
Edward de Bono
Literature
1933–2021
"The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking."
22 quotes
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David Gruber
Psychology
b. 1979
1 quotes
🇺🇸Stephen Stich
Philosophy
Materialism
b. 1943
1 quotes
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🇺🇸John Bargh
Psychology
b. 1955
"Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2009 Symposium: Free Will"
3 quotes
🇺🇸Douglas Hofstadter
Science
b. 1945
"If the meanings of true and false were switched, this sentence wouldn't be false."
18 quotes
🇺🇸Alvin Goldman
Philosophy
1938–2024
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today — every one of us — can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!"
— Daniel Dennett, b. 1942View →
"All economic activity is carried out through time. Every individual economic process occupies a certain time, and all linkages between economic processes necessarily involve longer or shorter periods of time."
— Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899View →
"The economics of information, market socialism and Hayek's legacy"
— Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899View →
"Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men."
— Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899View →
"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop."
— Friedrich Hayek, b. 1899View →