Celia Green Quotes

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

The human mind is a curious thing. It can take just so much and no more.

Just as a man working with his tools should know its limitations, a man working with his cognitive apparatus must know its limitations.

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity.

There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.

Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness ot to answer any question we are capable of asking.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

We can only learn so much about our minds, because we are using our minds to do so.

There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind

The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.