The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Quotes
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverb