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• Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Appreciation, Determination, Real

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Intuition, Today

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• In general, I'm in support of promoting art and science in public schools. I think music and science are probably the most important factors for the human brain developing. Even more so than any other fields, because music covers mathematics, cognitive reasoning, motor skills, coordination, like, it's kind of everything.

  Reggie Watts

  Art, School, Thinking

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• Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

  Greg McKeown

  Logical Reasoning, Play, Brain

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, 2014.

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• A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.

  Jean Francois Revel

  Ideas, Suggestions, Groups

  Jean François Revel (1991). “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information”, Random House (NY)

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• There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

  Marvin Minsky

  Three, Cases, Approach

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• When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person but you are in a certain perception of the world between really being conceptual and completely stupid. So you are in between, with a lot of intuition and instinct. And that's not completely being intellectual because I think intuition is more blurred. It comes from intuition. Instinct. More than really reasoning.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Stupid, Thinking, Intellectual

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Kings, Real, Technology

  Rabindranath Tagore, Sahitya Akademi (1996). “The English writings of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

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• Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ...
  - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated,
  - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sound, Adults

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Gospel Renewal: Center Church, Part Two”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.

  Lin Yutang

  Army, Thinking, Color

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Way, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive: Mill's Works”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Fruit, Method, Aim

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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• It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.

  Ernest Sosa

  Errors, Perception, Pieces

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

  Isaac Watts

  Light, Hundred, Certainty

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• My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Color

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.

  Al Gore

  Long, Goal, Use

  "Gore talks climate change, jobs in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell". www.nbcnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Religion, World

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Curiosity, Important

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Mind, Important, Needs

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• If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings, or plans. The reason these things will fail while faith will not fail is that all these things depend on us, while faith depends on God. It is a gift of God.

  Peter Kreeft

  Practice, Feelings, Good Intentions

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.43, Ignatius Press

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• No power of earth, or hell, men or devils, can possibly stand against the word of God; and hence it is the very height of folly and wild madness for any one to set up his thoughts or reasonings in opposition to the plain statements of Holy Scripture; and, on the other hand, it is the beginning and end of all true wisdom to submit in all things to the absolute authority of that Word which is settled forever in Heaven.

  Charles Henry Mackintosh

  Christian, Men, Hands

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• In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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• Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board.

  Carroll Smith

  Drawing, Important, Wheels

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• Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Moving, Views, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2013). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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