Charlie Crist Quotes

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

I'm a puzzle doer.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

I like to think of myself as fairly intellectual.

The biggest learning during my tenure as a captain was that, a lot of time, I used to think that this is common sense. But no, there is nothing called common sense.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

I'm a huge fan of the liberal arts approach of teaching you to think, analyze, and communicate, then sending you out into the world to cause trouble.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.