Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

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

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults.

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

You can't fix a problem if you don't have the words to describe it. You can't even think about it clearly.

I've always had an aptitude for wrestling. I can't explain it - it's like a gift. To this day, I don't always know how or why I do certain things.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

Learning is effortless. Learning is a painless process. Learning is something we do naturally!

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

Italians think with their heads.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.