“The intellectual power of man is not a-wandering thing, but has a fixed law and order of its own.”— George Boole
“My own view is that the brain is not a computer, and the mind is not a computer program.”— Roger Penrose
“The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed.”— George Boole
“When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it is always the imagination that wins, without any exception.”— Émile Coué
“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”— Marvin Minsky
“The mind is a kludge, a patchwork of different mechanisms that have been cobbled together over eons of evolution.”— Marvin Minsky
“A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.”— James Allen
“Consciousness is not a property of matter, and it cannot be detected in the laboratory.”— Gaston Bachelard
“A universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind capable of understanding it.”— John David Barrow