Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right. If you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

I can't solve a puzzle for the life of me - my brain doesn't work that way. But I can take a very simple idea and extrapolate from it and spend time with it and pull things out of it.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

Rain on my head, call that brainstorming.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

A lot of writing is thinking.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.

Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.