Lewis Carroll Quotes

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.

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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

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

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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.

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

When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.

To solve the Cube, you need special skills and understanding. For example, pattern recognition is very important to solve the Cube.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

I always try to stay methodical and logical with everything I do, playing cricket and making decisions.

Once you make a mistake, it's kind of in your head what you need to do and what exactly is going on.

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventually you're going to find it.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

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.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

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.

I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.