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.
EDWARD DE BONOEveryone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.
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The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
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Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
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Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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People should realize we’re jerks just like them.
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You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.
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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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