“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 …
"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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"Logic tells us that on such and such a way we are certain not to meet any obstacle; it does not say which way leads to the end. For that it is necessary to see the end from afar, and the faculty which teaches us to see is intuition." ~ Henri Poincaré
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"To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better." ~ Henri Poincaré
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