mind

"Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world …"

"Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought."

"With few exceptions, the bulk of the collected lesion evidence up through the 1950s into the early '60s converged to support the picture of a leading, more highly evolved and intellectual left hemisph…"

"The aptitudes needed to conduct a real research project are fundamentally different from the ones needed for purposes of scientific vulgarisation . This is because above and beyond a capacity for unde…"

"In the heart of the sphere of everything that keeps changing, there one thing that never changes—life. Life is the one thing that stays with me until the very end. Today, people may like me. Tomorrow,…"

"Most economists, to the extent that they think about the subject at all, regard the Great Depression of the 1930s as a gratuitous, unnecessary tragedy."

"He always sends errors into the world in pairs—pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra disli…"

"espite inevitable difficulties and methodological problems, the design of unified architectures modeling the breadth of mental capabilities in a single system is a crucial stage in understanding the h…"

"The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous — poets and honeymooners."

"There is a sword," I said. "A sword that is — is not quite a sword as we think of weapons. My mind is cloudy there still. But I know that Ghast Rhymi can tell me where it is. A weapon, yet not a weapo…"

"I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him."

"Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all."

"It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared."

"In the new order a Locke was free—with almost no danger of being interfered with—to think his sublime thoughts, to seek the first causes of all things, to understand the nature of things. He could tal…"

"It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it."

"An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970."

"I think Rumsfeld was not a good Defense Secretary. I'm glad he's gone."

"You all think I am a coward, when all I am is polite."

"Well, I think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all."

"What I hear in my brain dictates the beginning of any attempt at a new song."