Cognitive Leap Quotes

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.