“Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.” MindMeanCertainIndividualAnswersResultsVirtueCapableSeriesObservationPermitCapabilityQuestioningFiniteMeasurement Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)” PeoplePersonsSeemsSufferingThreeNamesSimpleAnswersCasesFieldsPleaseCapableHonestlyNarcissismSmarter Author:Ingo Molnar
“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.” MindPhilosophyUniverseImaginationAnswersKnownGreatnessHighestCapableIntellectualUnionsSakeBeing TrueConceptionContemplatingDefiniteDiminishAssuranceSpeculationDogmatic Book:The Problems of Philosophy Source: The Problems of Philosophy
“Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.” YearsChildrenFactsShowsSeemsSchoolEnjoyAnswersGroupsMaterialsFindingsCapableAdultsAbsenceExperimentsRight AnswersSupervisionAnswering Questions Author:Sugata Mitra
“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.” IfsChildrenHelpingSimpleAnswersStudentsAmountCapableTreatsComplicatedMediocreDependable Author:Haim Ginott
“There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.” WorldHumansWholeShowsEarthSpiritAsksLostAnswersProductsOffersLimitsCapableSacredEnvironmentalDareMapsQuartersStewardshipFootprintDeclaring Book:Small Wonder Source: Small Wonder
“I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in an afterlife or not, whether I believe in God or not, I can only answer you that all things are possible. And if all things are possible, heaven and hell and the angels are also possible. They're not to be ruled out.” IfsThinkingMindBelieveI CanAsksI BelieveHeavenAnswersHellCapableAngelAll ThingsI Believe InAsk MeBelieve In GodAfterlifeOpen MindHeaven And HellI Believe In GodKeep An Open Mind Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.” MindHardProblemAnswersDivineCapableAngelPhilosophicalAskingSolveMeaninglessOrganismsEquipmentHomo SapiensCognitive Author:Steven Pinker