Science Quotes

"Thought is massively parallel yet produces serialized output."

"Cognitive processes are often computationally intractable yet tractable mentally."

"Cognitive architecture constrains what mental contents are possible."

"Mental disorders reveal the complexity of cognitive organization."

"Cognitive science must integrate insights from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy."

"Language of thought hypothesis explains the systematicity of thought."

"Cognitive impenetrability explains why we cannot simply choose to see illusions differently."

"The problem of mental causation is really the problem of downward causation."

"Cognitive processes are subject to both computational and rational constraints."

"The architecture of cognition reflects billions of years of evolution."

"Cognitive systems exhibit bounded rationality and systematic irrationality."

"The explanatory autonomy of psychology does not require psychological holism."

"Modularity explains cognitive efficiency and explains cognitive rigidity."

"Cognitive systems use heuristics that violate the principles of rational choice theory."

"The architecture of the mind is both universal and individually variable."

"Science without wonder becomes mere mechanism; wonder without science becomes mere fantasy."

"Science is the systematic investigation of wonder; it is not the enemy of mystery."

"Facts are better than dreams."

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to science, but which it is scarcely honorable to science to demand."

"The propositions of natural science tell us nothing about the world; they describe facts."

"Science is what you know well enough to teach to a computer. Everything else is art."

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

"Science is a tool we use, not a master to which we submit."

"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, is found in mathematics as surely as poetry."

"Science does not promise happiness; it promises truth."

"Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is talking about nor whether what one says is true."

"Science without conscience becomes the slave of ignorance."

"Science is the systematic pursuit of understanding; religion is the intuitive knowing."

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

"The demand for certainty is one which is natural to science, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."