Cognitive Limit Quotes

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

Anyone with a normal brain can do almost anything.

Chance does not speak essentially through words nor can it be seen in their convolution. It is the eruption of language, its sudden appearance. It's not a night twinkle with stars, an illuminated sleep, nor a drowsy vigil. It is the very edge of consciousness.

Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

It's impossible for one person to think of everything.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Thinking about all that - what it means to be happy - I think it overloaded your brain.