Don’t criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.
EDWARD DE BONOI think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
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The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
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Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That’s a rate of 7,256 children’s lives saved each day. It drives me nuts that most people don’t seem to know this news.
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
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The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
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Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.
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You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.
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The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.
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Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
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The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.
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Creativity and lateral thinking have exactly the same basis as humour.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.
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The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
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A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth.
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Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
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Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
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If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
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