“Pinker told us he wanted to have entered into the record Kahneman’s statements on the irrationality of much of human thought. I don't think of religious traditions primarily as irrational, I think of them primarily as imagination, which is what they are” https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion …
"When a person works, he must have knowledge or he will make terrible mistakes. But at the same time, knowledge alone doesn’t do anything new. You must have instinct and somehow be conscious of making use of instinct." ~ Heisuke Hironaka
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Yes. Also https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37763-improvement-makes-strait-roads-but-the-crooked-roads-without-improvement … If you’ve ever tried to create something new you realize that logic takes you only so far ( in most cases, to be honest)
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"One of the reasons we don’t do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught." ~ Israel Moiseevich Gelfand
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