Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

I think like a detective.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

if you do not appreciate the mathematics, you cannot see, among the great variety of facts, that logic permits you to go from one to the other

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. The activity of the intuition consists in making spontaneous judgements which are not the result of conscious trains of reasoning. The exercise of ingenuity in mathematics consists in aiding the intuition through suitable arrangements of propositions, and perhaps geometrical figures or drawings.

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.