Erno Rubik Quotes

One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

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.

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Basically, I'm a bit of a nerd and I've always wanted to solve a Rubik's Cube.

I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

I'm a puzzle doer.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

If you have an analytical bent like I do, going back to my days as a programmer, you like to ask questions.

Some people are great at the pure mathematical things - like Bill Gates, he's great at math things. He loves to do puzzles. Me, I like to look at an overall landscape and try to figure out, how do you solve a problem?

Solving wits and puzzles, in a way, helps to develop wit and ingenuity.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

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

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.